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MTA Board Approves $68B Plan Despite Hochul’s Congestion Pricing Pause

Congestion pricing advocates rally at the Bowling Green station ahead of MTA board meeting, Sept. 25, 2024.

The MTA board on Wednesday approved a $68.4 billion blueprint for big-ticket upgrades in the transit agency’s new five-year capital program  — even as billions of dollars in funding remain unaccounted for in the current plan and the next one. The MTA board had until October 1 to submit the 2025-2029 plan for system upkeep […]

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An Overland Park pharmacist quit the drug insurance game. He says it could save you money

Pharmacist Nick Romo inside his Overland Park pharmacy, Pharmington Drugs. He's leaving pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, behind with a cost-plus model.

Nick Romo spent a decade as a pharmacist under the rule of insurance companies and their middlemen. Too often, customers couldn’t get the drugs their doctors prescribed or ran into prices so high they walked away empty-handed. So two years ago, he opened Pharmington Drugs in south Overland Park in rebellion against it all. “I […]

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