UW rips WSU-commissioned study on new medical school – Tue, 16 Sep 2014 PST

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The University of Washington on Monday criticized as seriously flawed a feasibility study supporting a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington StateUniversity.

WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students more cheaply thanUW.

That conclusion is based on the UW School of Medicine receiving about $94.6 million in state funding in 2011. The WSU consultants preparing the study simply divided that $94.6 million figure by 440 medical students to arrive at a per-student cost to the state of$215,000.

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A UW task force on medical education will hold the last of its statewide meetings in Spokane. The task force was created in the spring to look at the future of the WWAMIprogram.

The University of Washington on Monday criticized as seriously flawed a feasibility study supporting a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington StateUniversity.

WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students more cheaply thanUW.

That conclusion is based on the UW School of Medicine receiving about $94.6 million in state funding in 2011. The WSU consultants preparing the study simply divided that $94.6 million figure by 440 medical students to arrive at a per-student cost to the state of$215,000.

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UW criticizes WSU Spokane medical school study

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by Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press

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Posted on September 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM

Updated yesterday at 12:28 PM

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The University of Washington on Monday criticized as deeply flawed a study released last week that supported the creation of a new medical school in Spokane by rival Washington State University.

A statement from the Seattle university said the study released last week contained "faulty assumptions, omissions and erroneous data.

"These flaws raise significant concerns about the actual feasibility of a WSU medical school," the UW statement said.

Officials for Washington State University stood by the results of the feasibility study. They contend a big shortage of doctors outside the Seattle metropolitan area justifies creation of a public medical school in Spokane. The Legislature would have to provide funding for the project, which would likely compete with the University of Washington's multi-state WWAMI program for students and resources.

The University of Washington complained in particular that the study by MGT of America, Inc. assumed the re-direction of funds from the existing WWAMI medical education program in Spokane to the new WSU medical school there.

"You can't spend the same public dollars twice," the UW said.

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Private meetings between UW, WSU explored 'co-branding' medical school in Spokane – Wed, 17 Sep 2014 PST

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Two private meetings this summer brought top officials from the University of Washington and Washington State University close to a deal on co-branding a medical school inSpokane.

Yet the efforts for a third and possibly final meeting to seal an agreement were stymied when WSU officials hesitated. And now the two schools are veering away from collaboration that would have shared local faculty, and brought medical school admissions, administration and research dollars toSpokane.

Scott Morris, chairman and CEO of Avista Corp., represented Spokanes interests in the negotiations along with former Providence Health Care executive Mike Wilson. They

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Two private meetings this summer brought top officials from the University of Washington and Washington State University close to a deal on co-branding a medical school inSpokane.

Yet the efforts for a third and possibly final meeting to seal an agreement were stymied when WSU officials hesitated. And now the two schools are veering away from collaboration that would have shared local faculty, and brought medical school admissions, administration and research dollars toSpokane.

Scott Morris, chairman and CEO of Avista Corp., represented Spokanes interests in the negotiations along with former Providence Health Care executive Mike Wilson. They wanted the two schools to strike a deal before each released reports bolstering their own plans for training more doctors inSpokane.

People become entrenched around such reports, Morrissaid.

WSU Regent Mike Worthy said he needed to delay the meetings with Morris, Wilson and UW leadership when it became apparent they were pushing for a contract when he had not yet informed his own board of theprogress.

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Vodafone-Liberty Global Deal Is Way to End Duel: Real M&A

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If Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) and Liberty Global Plc (LBTYA) really want to dominate the phone, cable and wireless market in Europe, they should quit competing and try merging.

The companies were among large cable and phone operators that gobbled up smaller players in more than $200 billion of European deals since 2011 to gain customers and market share. A merger of Vodafone and Liberty would be the next logical step, according to Bank of America Corp. Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao told Bloomberg News last week that John Malones Liberty could be a good fit at the right price. A deal would create the biggest company in Europe selling bundled packages of mobile, phone, Internet and TV services.

A combined company could see a 3.2 percent jump in earnings per share from the deal by next year, were Vodafone to offer London-based Liberty a 20 percent premium, or more than $80 billion including debt, and pay for half in cash, according to Erhan Gurses, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Acquirers paid an average premium of 20 percent for cable assets in the last five years, he said.

It makes a ton of sense because Vodafone just bought cable companies in Germany and Spain and theres the sense that once you start on this track you dont stop, said Amy Yong, a media analyst at Macquarie Capital in New York. At the end of the day, Malone is not emotional about business. Hes rational, and at the right price he would obviously let Liberty go.

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Selling mobile services alongside fixed offerings such as TV and Internet access in quad-play packages helps carriers generate more revenue and makes it less likely that a customer will leave. Thats vital for companies like Newbury, England-based Vodafone that have been struggling with oversaturated markets in Europe and sluggish economies that are eating into revenue. Even in the U.K., Vodafones home market, the wireless operator is only the No. 3 mobile provider.

Liberty, which has forged resale agreements with wireless providers, has also found that adding mobile service to its broadband and video packages cuts customer defections and increases sales, CEO Mike Fries said last week, appearing at the same New York conference organized by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. at which Colao spoke.

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East Liberty's revitalization efforts studied

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By Teresa F. Lindeman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

When officials at search engine giant Google were considering whether to put offices in the Bakery Square project in Larimer a few years ago, they had a question: Is Target coming?

The retailers decision to move into East Liberty was one of series of cascading steps that have helped drive redevelopment in an area once known mainly for deteriorating buildings and concerns about crime, according to Mark Minnerly, director of real estate at the Downtown-based Mosites Co.

Mr. Minnerlys remarks came Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that has been pulling together information on issues of retail in underserved communities.

The institute, where former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy is a senior resident fellow, put together a report that looked at three neighborhoods that have brought about change driven in part by retail. In addition to the East Liberty effort, other case studies considered were Union Market in Washington, D.C., and Old Spanish Trail in Houston.

Specifically, conclusions in the report issued Wednesday were drawn from the exchange at a forum in February that included the institutes representatives, as well as officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and from the New York trade group International Council of Shopping Centers.

Among the conclusions was one that called for choosing a bridge location a place like East Liberty that could draw on both low- and high-income neighborhoods. Once improvement has taken hold there, interest spreads to nearby areas, as it has to the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

In the case of East Liberty, Mr. Minnerly along with Mr. Murphy and Steve Mosites, president of the Mosites Co. said getting Home Depot to come was the first step in getting momentum to reverse damage done by misguided urban renewal efforts decades earlier.

The Mosites Co. hasn't been involved in all of the projects in the neighborhood, but has been a key player in the revitalization effort.

The Home Depot store opened in 1998, with help from public funding. It is the largest volume store in the Pittsburgh market, Mr. Minnerly said.

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Libertarian Wyllie fails to qualify for gubernatorial debate

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Last Updated: Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 4:02 PM TALLAHASSEE (AP) --

Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist are the only candidates that qualify for a Leadership Florida/Florida Press Association debate.

Representatives from the groups said Wednesday that Libertarian Adrian Wyllie won't be included in the Oct. 15 debate unless a poll shows he has stronger support by the end of the month.

Candidates need at least 15 percent support in a credible poll, including the benefit of the poll's margin of error. A Bay News 9/Tampa Bay Times/UF Graham Centerstatewide poll conducted after the Aug. 27 primary showed that only 6.3 percent of likely voters would vote for Wyllie.

Wyllie's campaign said it would fight to be included in the debate and noted the same groups used to set 10 percent support in a poll as the qualifying number, plus the benefit of margin of error.

That was raised after a Reform Party candidate nearly won a court battle to participate in a 2006 gubernatorial debate.

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Third Parties Still Fighting for Ballot Access

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VOL. 129 | NO. 180 | Tuesday, September 16, 2014

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Four years after the Libertarian Party of Tennessee filed its first lawsuit to get on the ballot, the group is still fighting for access in a state that has some of the most restrictive rules in the country for smaller political parties.

Since 2010, the Libertarians, the Green Party of Tennessee and the Constitution Party of Tennessee have been in near-constant litigation with the state. They have won several victories, and the legislature has changed the law slightly. But the parties say the hurdles for them to get their names on the ballot are still unreasonably high.

A 2010 federal court ruling in one of the cases stated that Tennessee was one of only two states where no third parties had qualified for the ballot over the previous decade.

Individual candidates can appear on Tennessee's ballot simply by submitting a petition with 25 signatures, but they will appear as independents unless their parties have qualified to appear on the ballot as well. For a party to appear on the ballot, it must collect more than 40,000 signatures. If the party wants to stay on the ballot, one of its candidates must garner more than 80,000 votes.

A recent opinion from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the cases says the ease with which an independent candidate can get on Tennessee's ballot undermines the state's argument that too many parties could result in voter confusion.

"It is a puzzling proposition that voters should be less confused by a ballot listing numerous candidates without a party designation than by a similar ballot including party designations." The court goes on to say that a ballot with party designations "at least, contains information helpful to distinguishing among lesser-known candidates."

Donn Janes, vice-chair of the Libertarian Party of Tennessee, said he believes the major parties intentionally make it difficult for minor parties.

"Libertarians would erode some of the voter base for the Republican party," he said. "I can see why they would want to keep us off the ballot."

A state Republican Party spokesman declined to comment. Ken Kollman, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, said it is clear that "a strong Libertarian candidate in any state is going to hurt the Republicans."

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