The nonprofit Citizens Alliance for Better Neighborhoods spent $1.5 million on lawyers while its then executive drector Ruth Arnao was being investigated by the FBI and IRS. Arnao, above, is seen here in 2007. (Tom Gralish / Inquirer)
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Karen Heller: Dear friends, it's time for another installment of the continuing soap opera Other People's Money. Please remember at all times that those Other People would be You.
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- We almost had a catastrophe in our health care system. A mandated 10 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements was averted Tuesday when Congress overrode President Bush's veto of a bill that would protect doctors from the cut.
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Santorum wrong on Boy Scouts
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