Republicans Score Election Litigation Win

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Republicans Score Election Litigation Win

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) – UNC Mobile One Card, a digital photo identification on the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina, will not be valid in North Carolina’s elections.

A temporary injunction was granted Friday afternoon by the North Carolina Court of Appeals, scoring a victory for Republicans at the state and national level against the State Board of Elections. The decision stays last week’s order by Judge Keith Gregory in Wake County Superior Court.

“Two battleground state wins for election integrity in one afternoon,” wrote Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley on social media, referring also to a win in Michigan. “This is just common sense. We refuse to give an inch when it comes to protecting Voter ID!”

The lawsuit was the seventh against the state board in 52 days when filed, four of which were in a three-week blitz by the Grand Old Party. According to an affidavit filed in the case, a 22-year-old used two free apps from Apple – Superimpose+ and Walletsmith – to forge a digital ID for UNC Chapel Hill. While it took him less than an hour, he said now knowing how would make the process much quicker.

State law, says plaintiffs, only allows ID in physical form. Gregory in his ruling had said for Carolina students to get the mobile ID, a valid form of photo identification is needed.

The state’s voters have multiple options to include military or veterans photo ID card issued by the U.S. government; ID card with photo issued by the U.S. or North Carolina government for a public assistance program; tribal enrollment card with photo issued by a tribe recognized by the state or federal government, which include the Cherokee-Eastern Band, Coharie, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi-Saponi, Sappony and Waccamaw Siouan.

Additionally, there are 95 entities with approved student or government-employee photo IDs, or both.

Creating digital items, including through use of artificial intelligence, has been a subject of many polls this election cycle. A national poll from Elon University released in May said more than 3 in 4 Americans fear abuses of artificial intelligence will affect the 2024 presidential election, and many are not confident they can detect faked photos, videos or audio.

The state board was split in its decision. Chairman Alan Hirsch, Jeff Carmon and Siobhan Millan, all Democrats, voted for the mobile ID use; Republicans Stacy Eggers and Kevin Lewis were opposed. The board was named as defendants, along with Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell; plaintiffs were the North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee.

Absentee voting by mail is underway. Early in-person voting begins Oct. 17 and Election Day is Nov. 5. The voter registration deadline is Oct. 11, though same-day registration is available. Absentee ballots can be requested through Oct. 29.

Whatley, on the litigation win in Michigan, wrote, “Clerks were counting mail ballots without proof of signature verification, opening the door to fraud. The @GOP sued. Result? Ballots will now only be counted after proof that signatures are verified – a key win.”

North Carolina has more than 7.6 million registered voters, according to State Board of Elections data through Saturday. It is among the seven consensus battleground states representing 93 electoral college votes. The breakdown is Pennsylvania 19, North Carolina 16, Georgia 16, Michigan 15, Arizona 11, Wisconsin 10 and Nevada six.

Welfare Fraud Charges Filed Against 103 Recipients

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Welfare Fraud Charges Filed Against 103 Recipients

(Christen Smith, The Center Square) Pennsylvania investigators charged 103 welfare recipients with fraud over the summer, according to an announcement Wednesday from the Office of Inspector General.

All but one of the beneficiaries risk felony convictions, which carry possible maximum penalties of seven years in prison and $15,000 fines. The remaining case is filed as a misdemeanor charge. For deception involving food stamps, cash assistance and subsidized daycare programs, defendants will be disqualified from receiving benefits for the amount of time they defrauded the state.

“Each of these charges is a reminder of our responsibility to protect the integrity of the commonwealth’s resources,” said State Inspector General Lucas M. Miller. “We remain vigilant in our efforts to ensure that public assistance benefits are used as intended – to support those who are truly in need. I am proud that the funds recovered will be returned to help individuals across Pennsylvania.”

The investigation revealed that in July and August, the accused “either trafficked their public assistance or misrepresented their household circumstances,” costing taxpayers more than $680,000. The office said barring the recipients from future benefits will recoup the money lost.

Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh in a statement said the agency prioritizes protecting public assistance programs, “which are a lifeline for people in difficult situations.”

“DHS works diligently to ensure the benefits we administer remain available to those who deserve them, and we are proud to partner with OSIG every day to refer suspected public assistance fraud and maintain the responsible stewardship of these essential programs,” she said.

The cases illustrate legislators’ concerns about the abuse of safety-net programs and the department’s need to prioritize reforms that would better safeguard public money.

It’s not an isolated incident, either. Data taken from the OSIG’s 2017-18 Fiscal Year Annual Report shows the agency saved Pennsylvania more than $75 million in benefits that would have been incorrectly paid. It also projected a cost-benefit of nearly $12 for every $1 spent on investigative activities.

During a 2023 committee hearing, the Foundation for Government Accountability said weakness in program design diverts benefits away from those who truly need them and into the hands of those living above the income limits – even millionaires.

Back in 2019 – when Gov. Josh Shapiro was serving as attorney general – he supported legislative reforms to crack down on Medicare fraud, which he estimated cost Pennsylvania $3 billion per year.

Legislators warn that it’s an expensive problem that only worsens as the list of beneficiaries grows longer every year.

In 2000, Pennsylvania had 760,000 residents receiving food stamps. Now, almost 2 million receive them. Growth in Medicaid has been similar: The state spent $10.7 billion on 1.3 million residents in 2000, but now, it spends almost $47 billion to provide Medicaid benefits to 3.3 million residents.

Welfare expansion has outpaced population growth: Pennsylvania has only gained 700,000 residents since 2000. The state budget is now dominated by safety net spending that runs through the Department of Human Services.

Though human services eat up a significant chunk of all state budgets, the commonwealth stands out: Pennsylvania’s Medicaid expenditures as a percentage of its budget is the highest in the nation, according to an analysis from the Foundation for Government Accountability.

In August, the state renewed the work requirement waiver for food stamps through Aug. 31, 2025. State data shows nearly 200,000 residents of the more than 2 million enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, fall into this category.

Without a waiver, able-bodied adults would have to work at least 20 hours a week or spend the equivalent amount of time in a workforce development program. Until the requirement is met, benefits would be limited to three months over a three-year period.

Thirty-nine House Republicans, in a letter sent to Arkoosh, said waiving the work requirement prolongs government dependency and worsens the state’s labor shortage.

Supporters beg to differ, saying many programs go beyond food stamps. In an analysis from the Urban Institute, able-bodied adults are considered a “challenging” group to serve. These beneficiaries are more likely to be homeless or live with a mental or physical condition that doesn’t qualify as a disability, even though it makes working unrealistic.

MURDOCK: We Don’t Need No Fracking Ban… When Red Tape Works Just as Well

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MURDOCK: We Don’t Need No Fracking Ban… When Red Tape Works Just as Well

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) I believe Kamala Harris.

She told a CNN town hall in 2019, “There’s no question. I’m in favor of banning fracking.”

But she said in her Sept. 10 ABC News debate against President Donald J. Trump: “I will not ban fracking.”

That second comment might be the only campaign promise she ever keeps.

How could these statements both be true?

Kamala 1.0 can do as planned while Kamala 2.0 keeps her word.

If voters buy Kamala’s act, President Harris could cripple fracking, if not stop it altogether, as she pledged in 2019. And she can do so without banning fracking, as she promised this month.

Kamala could leave America’s oil and gas industry perfectly free to submit Applications for Permits to Drill. But these APDs could stretch from 30 to 100 pages now to, say, 300 pages under Harris–Walz.

Kamala could hike today’s $12,515 filing fee per APD to $50,000—nearly quadruple. Why not?

She could finance her “free” giveaways by making frackers “pay their fair share” to file paperwork.

“What’s the rush?” Kamala might ask.

According to the Government Accountability Office, “For APDs BLM received from May 2016 through June 2019, overall review times decreased from 196 days to 94 days”—down 52%, mainly under Trump. But with public health, safety, and Earth’s delicate climate at stake, why not spend at least six months with each application—just in case?

The Bureau of Land Management scrutinizes APDs on federal soil. But BLM might miss something. So, each application could traverse other agencies and even Cabinet departments, to double check and confirm that everything is hunky-dory. America cannot be too careful.

The Justice Department could certify that no fracker ever has faced a federal criminal indictment, conviction or U.S. civil complaint.

The Labor Department could verify that no fracking company’s corporate officers or board members ever violated a federal labor regulation, angered a union boss, overlooked a worker, or forgot to buy flowers on National Secretary Day.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could ensure that every driller’s workforce lacked racial bias and perfectly reflected America’s precise demographic profile, per the Census Bureau.

If, for instance, Frack-O-Rama, Inc.’s payroll is not 58.4% white, 19.5% Hispanic, 13.7% black, 6.4% of Asian descent, 1.3% American Indian, and 0.3% Native Hawaiian, then this racist enterprise better start explaining—Macht Schnell!

After this initial scrutiny, frackers with dreams, ambitions, and aspirations better prepare for deeper probes: Environmental impact reports are inescapable: Applicants must prove that they love Mother Nature.

Next, Kamala could require that explorers show that they would not disturb the shards of pottery or remains of, say, Nevada’s Te-Moak and Winnemucca tribesmen. Likewise the bones of Louisiana’s deceased slaves should remain untouched. And how awful if frack, baby, frack pounded dinosaur fossils into dust.

Scholars at the Smithsonian museums of the American Indian, African American History, and Natural History could inspect every application and attest that no such horrors would unfold.

Despite such reassurances, Frack-O-Rama, Inc. still could be told: “The Harris-Walz Administration has determined that your APD requires further study. Please complete, swear, and notarize these 12 new forms, under penalty of perjury. Don’t call us. We’ll call you.”

Frackers eventually would learn that persistence is futile. This game-changing technology would run out of steam.

Thus, Kamala 1.0 can keep her old commitment to the Center-Left, and Kamala 2.0 can honor her new vows to the Center-Right.

This scenario could transpire just as America needs more fossil fuel—especially natural gas—to generate the electricity to power millions of Kamala-mandated cars and trucks and the square miles of server farms that cryptocurrency, blockchain, and artificial intelligence require to blossom.

Before any of this unfolds, however, voters (especially those in frack-friendly Pennsylvania) should ponder what Power the Future’s Larry Behrens asked in The Hill: “Was Vice President Kamala Harris lying about her position on fracking in 2019, or is her campaign lying now?”

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.

He’s Back: Cuomo Salivates Over NYC Mayoral Run as Adams Falls to DOJ

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He’s Back: Cuomo Salivates Over NYC Mayoral Run as Adams Falls to DOJ

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is ramping up his plans for a potential political comeback, this time as mayor of New York City. 

Cuomo has been monitoring the downfall of Mayor Eric Adams, who faces federal bribery and campaign finance charges. 

According to Politico, Cuomo is waiting for Adams to resign or is preparing to mount a primary challenge against him. 

New York Democratic strategist Chris Coffey told Politico that Cuomo would likely run after Adams’s indictment and subsequent arrest. 

“He was probably going to run no matter what, and a weakened, or out-of-the-race Eric Adams is a better bet for him,” said Coffey, an adviser to former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ex-Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

Cuomo served as governor from 2011 until 2021 when he resigned amid scandals following a report from New York Attorney General Letitia James that accused him of sexually harassing several women. 

Cuomo is also under investigation by the House of Representatives over his handling of COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes.

The former Democrat governor has also monitored the unpopularity of his successor and former Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, who was elected to a full term in 2022 during the narrowest election since 1994. 

Politico reported that Cuomo’s team has laid the groundwork for his campaign, suggesting he would be declared the victor in a 90-day election if Adams resigns. 

Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi dismissed the reports of a comeback, claiming, “He has previously said he has no plans to make plans, and that hasn’t changed.” 

If he chooses to run, Cuomo would face opposition from far-left Democrats, including the members of the New York Working Families Party. 

“In this moment, New Yorkers are craving a leader with the utmost integrity and Andrew Cuomo is not that,” said Working Families Party Co-Director Jasmine Gripper. 

Celebrities, Politicians Resume Threats to Leave Trump’s America

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Celebrities, Politicians Resume Threats to Leave Trump’s America

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Actors, musicians, politicians, activists, talk show hosts and many others recently resurrected their 2016 threats about how they will leave the United States if Donald Trump becomes the president of the country, but will they keep their promises?

It looks like it is not going to be the case, and regular Americans know that, rolling their eyes whenever someone famous states that one will flee the country to escape the potential tyranny during Trump’s presidency. Americans started treating the famous people like villagers treated a boy in Aesop’s fable. Nobody believes them anymore.

The most recent example of that happening was on Sept. 25, 2024, when disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen went on MSNBC, telling Nicolle Wallace that he would move to another country and change his name to avoid communist-like persecution from Trump and his administration.

Last year, American singer Cher said she would leave the country if Trump became president.

Headline USA previously reported that famous people, mainly in the entertainment industry, stated that they would permanently leave the United States if Trump entered the White House.

The people who made this promise were Jon Stewart, Al Sharpton, Miley Cyrus, Samuel L. Jackson, Cher, Barbara Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Schumer and then-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Many regular Americans on social media platforms, primarily Twitter, criticized and mocked them in various ways.

“Don’t let the door hit you!” Conservative Brief successfully summarized the Americans’ response to Cohen’s recent comments.

Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris was a great example of people no longer caring about what celebrities say about politics. The New York Post reported that not only did people not start supporting Harris more after the endorsement, but it also turned more voters away from Harris.

As a result, entertainment journalists and critics like Christian Toto have suggested that the era of celebrity endorsements is over.

Some celebrities previously called out others in their field of work, stating they should not voice their political opinions.

“They might buy your CD or watch your movie, but you don’t put food on their table. You don’t pay their bills. A lot of Hollywood is living in a bubble. They’re pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family,” actor Mark Wahlberg told Task & Purpose in 2016.

Musician Pharell Williams also said celebrities should “shut up” about politics.

NYC Coup? Mayor Claims He’s Persecuted for Questioning Dems. on Immigration

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NYC Coup? Mayor Claims He’s Persecuted for Questioning Dems. on Immigration

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Sept. 25, 2024, the Democratic Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, claimed that the reason why he became a target of political persecution was because he opposed the invasion of illegal aliens into the country, in general, and the Big Apple, in particular.

“I always knew that if I stood my ground for all of you, that I would be a target and a target I became. Leaks and rumors have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine my credibility and paint me as guilty,” he said, as reported by the National News Desk.

Adams referred to him previously opposing non-stop immigration. According to Headline USA, he went as far as saying that policies of “sanctuary cities” are a “mistake,” suggesting that he would support a rollback.

“I think the previous administration [Bill de Blasio’s] made a big mistake. I think we need to correct that aspect of it,” he said.

Adams then explained that he wanted to correct this mistake because he realized New Yorkers no longer feel safe in their city.

“New Yorkers have a right to be safe in their city. The same way anyone breaks the law or does something violent to New Yorkers, I’m going to voice my concern about that,” he said.

“I want to go back to the standards of the previous mayors who, I believe, subscribe to my belief that people who are suspected of committing serious crimes in this city should be held accountable,” Adams said earlier this year when asked about the policies.

Headline USA also reported that Adams met with ICE agents to discuss limiting the city’s “sanctuary” status.

Adams’s claims about the alleged coup organized by the leftist regime came after Headline USA reported that there was a chance that Public Advocate and Democratic socialist Jumaane Williams could become the next mayor of New York City.

Axios reported that Andrew Cuomo also became a potential candidate for the job.

Globalists Claim Europe Is ‘Too White,’ ‘Too Western’

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Globalists Claim Europe Is ‘Too White,’ ‘Too Western’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The globalists recently said the quiet part out loud by admitting in a recently published report that Europe is too “white” and “Western,” urging the continent’s population to change that.

On Sept. 25, 2024, the European Council on Foreign Relations published a report titled Welcome to Barbieland: European Sentiment in the Year of Wars and Elections. In it, senior policy fellow and author Pawel Zerka discussed how Europeans could change Europe to benefit globalists.

Zerka noted that non-white and Muslim people have been misrepresented everywhere, specifically in politics, adding that, as a result of that, they felt “alienated.” The report’s author blamed the “far-right.”

“Far-right parties appeared to be on the rise in almost every member state, usually issuing promises to stop immigration or even planning (as the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, did) to expel large swathes of the population,” he wrote.

According to him, the European Union is “xenophobic” because it is too “white,” “Western” and “boomer,” adding that, to deal with it, people need to diversify the European population, reject the “‘ethnic’ conception of Europeanness” and “fill the ‘civic’ conception of Europeanness with substance.”

The organization also announced the release of the report on Twitter.

This report was just one of the recent examples of anti-white and anti-European hatred. European activists like Eva Vlaardingerbroek have been warning Europeans about the problem.

“Europe has been a predominantly white continent for the entirety of its history. Just because some bureaucrats have decided against the will of the people that we should suddenly be a minority on our own continent, doesn’t mean we should let it happen. Say no to being replaced,” she wrote in one of her Twitter posts.

Headline USA also previously reported on the “Great Replacement” agenda pushed by the United Nations.

Leftists have been pushing these ideas for quite a while, even publishing books to spread their ideas.

Headline USA also wrote about the anti-white racism in South Africa in the form of apartheid for white people. Other people on Twitter, including the platform’s current owner, Elon Musk, wrote about the explicit hatred of white people there.

Conservative journalist Lauren Southern also filmed a documentary on the struggles of white farmers in South Africa.

Melania Trump: Donald, 78, Not Done Making Babies Yet

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Melania Trump: Donald, 78, Not Done Making Babies Yet

(Headline USA) In her first interview in more than two years, former First Lady Melania Trump said she saw her husband’s survival in two attempts on his life as “miracles” and offered new details about the former president, including his desire to have more children.

The former fashion model has remained somewhat of an enigma in the 2024 election cycle, staying largely absent from the campaign trail, breaking norms in not speaking at the Republican National Convention and skipping key moments for her husband, Donald Trump, including his primary-night victory parties and court appearances in New York and Florida.

She is currently promoting her eponymous new memoir, which is set to be released on Oct. 8.

When asked if she and her husband ever discussed growing their family, she revealed that the Republican presidential nominee tried to persuade her to have more children.

“I was always perfectly fine with one,” she said in a pre-taped interview aired on Fox News Thursday morning. “And Donald was encouraging to have more. And I said like I’m completely fine with one because it’s” a “very busy life, and I know how busy he is. And I am in charge of everything. So that’s why it’s just perfect.”

The Slovenia native said the fashion industry gave her the “thick skin” required to withstand attacks as the wife of a president, who is one of the most polarizing political figures in recent memory.

“The fashion industry, it’s glamorous, but it’s, at the same time, very tough,” she said. “Everybody judges you, look at you” a “certain way, so it can be a mean world as well. So nothing prepared me more for this world than fashion. It gives you a thick skin.”

Melania also revealed that her son, Barron Trump, decided to continue living in their New York residence while attending New York University.

“I could not say I’m an empty nester. I don’t feel that way,” she said. “It was his decision to come here, that he wants to be in New York and study in New York and live in his home. And I respect that.”

The former first lady also called for Democrats and members of the media to stop branding her husband as a threat to democracy. She blamed the media for “fueling a toxic atmosphere” and empowering those who “want to do harm to him.”

Democrats previously blamed Trump for violent rhetoric, including the Jan. 6, 2021 uprising at the U.S. Capitol to protest the certification of the disputed 2020 election.

However, many of the Jan. 6 political dissidents contend that they were, in turn, responding to the exhortations of violence from Democrats who encouraged Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters for months to violently take to the streets, often with impunity.

“This is not normal,” Melania Trump told Ainsley Earhardt, a Fox & Friends co-host.

“Is it really shocking that all this egregious violence goes against my husband? Especially that we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as a threat to democracy, calling him vile names?” the former first lady added. “This needs to stop.”

Melania Trump said that a staffer alerted her to the shooting at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Earlier this month, Melania said she was in New York when she saw television reports of the second assassination attempt at his golf course in Florida.

“I think something was watching over him,” she said of her husband surviving both assassination attempts. “It’s almost like” the “country really needs him.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Richmond Fed President Urges Caution on Rate Cuts: Inflation Isn’t Defeated

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Richmond Fed President Urges Caution on Rate Cuts: Inflation Isn’t Defeated

(Headline USA) The president of the Federal Reserve’s Richmond branch says he supports reducing the central bank’s key interest rate “somewhat” from its current level but isn’t yet ready for the Fed to fully take its foot off the economy’s brakes.

In an interview Thursday with the Associated Press, Tom Barkin also said the economy is showing “impressive strength,” highlighting recent solid reports on retail sales, unemployment claims, and growth in the April-June quarter, which reached a healthy 3%.

“With inflation and unemployment being so close to normal levels, it’s OK to dial back the level of restraint, somewhat,” Barkin said, referring to cuts to the Fed’s key interest rate.

“I’m not yet ready to declare victory on inflation. And so I wouldn’t dial it back all the way” to a level that no longer restricts the economy, which economists refer to as “neutral.”

Estimates of neutral are currently about 3% to 3.5%, much lower than the benchmark rate’s current level of 4.8%.

Barkin’s caution stands in contrast to some of his fellow Fed policymakers who have expressed more urgency about rate cuts.

Fed Governor Adriana Kugler on Wednesday said she “strongly supported” the Fed’s larger-than-usual half-point rate cut last week, from a two-decade high of 5.3%, and added that she would support “additional cuts” as long as inflation continues to decline.

And Austan Goolsbee, president of the Fed’s Chicago branch, said Monday that there would likely be “many more rate cuts over the next year.”

Barkin was one of 11 Fed policymakers who voted for the Fed’s rate cut, while Governor Michelle Bowman dissented in favor of a smaller quarter-point reduction.

In the interview, Barkin said a key factor in his support was the relatively modest path of rate reductions the Fed forecast for the rest of this year and through 2025 in a set of projections it released Sept. 18. Those projections showed just two quarter-point reductions later this year and four next year, less than many investors and economists had expected.

Those projections showed a “very measured” series of rate cuts, as well as a “reasonably positive view” on the economy, Barkin said, and helped counter any perception that the Fed’s sharp rate cut this month reflected “panic” about the economy.

Barkin said inflation is likely to keep fading in the near term but he does see some risk it could prove stubborn next year.

Conflict in the Middle East could push up oil prices, which would lift inflation, and lower interest rates might accelerate purchases of homes and cars, which would increase prices if supply doesn’t keep up.

“Inflation is still over target,” Barkin said. “We do need to stay attentive to that.”

Barkin said he sees the Fed cutting borrowing costs in two phases, beginning with a “recalibration” because rates are higher than needed given the drop in inflation in the past two years. Inflation has fallen sharply from a peak of 7% in 2022, according to the Fed’s preferred gauge, to about 2.2% in August.

But only if inflation continues to decline steadily next year would he support rate “normalization,” in which the Fed could cut its rate to the “neutral” level, Barkin said.

Barkin also spends considerable time discussing the economy with businesses in the Fed’s Richmond district, which includes Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, the District of Columbia and most of West Virginia.

Most of his recent conversations have been reassuring, he said. While hiring has clearly slowed, so far the companies he speaks with aren’t planning job cuts.

“I push them very hard,” he said. “I have a very hard time finding anybody doing layoffs or even planning layoffs.”

“Part of it is their business is still healthy,” he added. “Why would you do layoffs if your business is still healthy? Part of it is, having been short in the pandemic, they’re reluctant to get caught short again.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Massachusetts Goes Full Socialist, Seizes Texas-Based Boston Hospital via Eminent Domain

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Massachusetts Goes Full Socialist, Seizes Texas-Based Boston Hospital via Eminent Domain

(Headline USA) Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it open and transition to a new owner.

St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston is one of a group operated by Texas-based Steward Health Care, which had announced its bankruptcy in May.

Operations will be transferred to Boston Medical Center, Healey said in a news release, adding, “we will protect access to care for tens of thousands of patients and save thousands of jobs.”

The action came after her administration announced last month that new operators had been secured for five of Steward’s seven hospitals in Massachusetts.

Lawrence General Hospital will become the new operator for both campuses of Holy Family in Haverhill and Methuen, Lifespan will assume operations of Morton and Saint Anne’s, and BMC will take over Good Samaritan. These transfers of ownership are expected to take effect on Oct. 1.

Steward received inadequate bids for two other hospitals, Carney Hospital in Boston and Nashoba Valley Medical Center in the town of Ayer, both of which have closed as a result.

A federal bankruptcy court this month approved the sale of Steward’s other Massachusetts hospitals.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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