Mayor Bill Bell is quoted in a White House press release that came out the other day, commenting on the attempt to repeal last year's Affordable Care Act.

“This is simply not the time to turn back the clock on opportunities and access to Affordable Health Care.  We need to move forward aggressively in support and implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act,” Bell's statement reads.

Bell is among eight mayors quoted in support of retaining the act. Some of the others are Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore, Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles and JoAnn J. Thomas of Hoffman, N.C. (In Richmond County, est. population 603.)

To see them all, use link below.

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A slew of Triangle biotech companies won a small share of a $1 billion federal giveaway announced Wednesday by the Obama Administration to promote medical research.

North Carolina’s portion of the federal grants, about $36 million, will be divided between more than 150 companies across the state. The grants were awarded for finding new therapies for unmet medical needs, for advancing a cure for cancer by 2040, and for cutting health care costs.

Many of the North Carolina recipients received grants up to $244,479 for expenses incurred in 2009 and again for the same amount for expenses incurred this year.