The following are a selection of blog comments that were posted on the Dispatch website following last week’s main story in the Saturday Dispatch about drugs and schoolchildren.
Keith Green: Well done to Charles Foster for his realistic approach to this type of problem. Half of the battle against drugs is acceptance of the problem.
Lola: I grew up in East London in the 70’s and many a professional parent daughter and Read the rest of this entry »
Yankees | Cano works to improve stance, fitness
Bryan Hoch, of MLB.com, reports
has worked on his batting approach and his fitness in the offseason. In addition to playing in his native Dominican Republic’s winter league, he also continued to work with
hitting coach Kevin Long in November to reduce the movement in his batting stance. Cano also hired a personal trainer in an effort to reduce his body fat and put on muscle.
For additional MLB Read the rest of this entry »
LAS VEGAS—Clark County officials say the county could lose up to $47 million in yearly property tax revenue to state government under the governor’s budget proposal.
Such a reduction would lead to large program cuts and as many as 350 layoffs.
Faced with a state budget shortfall, Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons wants to take tax revenue from the counties and move it to state coffers.
County administrator Don Burnette estimates Clark County Read the rest of this entry »
Opium, heroin and hashish have long been the targets of
’s war on drugs. Now officials have turned their attention to a dangerous new source of substance abuse: frogs.
Experts say addicts have begun breeding frogs for the purpose of rolling their dried skins inside cigarettes. Smoking them releases potentially addictive hallucinations, which are produced by a poisonous chemical normally used by the frogs as a weapon against prey and predators. Read the rest of this entry »
The former sprinter Tim Montgomery admitted in a jailhouse interview with HBO’s Bryant Gumbel that he knew he was taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs before the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
>Its another sign that the economic crisis may not delay the Democrats push for ambitious health-reform.
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Ambitious? The fact that they’re merely worsening the financial woes without consideration of what consequences this will have no only on the average American, but on health care as well, demonstrates that the Democrats – contrary to their campaign propaganda – had no intent on fixing the problems they claimed they wanted to fix. Read the rest of this entry »
, safety
, and running backs Chris Johnson of the
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are the finalists for Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week honors for games played on Sept. 14-15.
Fans can vote for one of these five players on NFL.com/rookies beginning Tuesday at 8 a.m. ET and ending on Friday at noon ET to determine the Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week. The Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week will be announced Friday evening on NFL.com/rookies.
In addition, for the fourth Read the rest of this entry »
In calling for emergency legislative action on prison construction in 2006, Schwarzenegger noted that the state’s lockups are filled far beyond capacity and described the situation as a “recipe for disaster,” threatening the safety of guards and inmates, attorney Donald Specter said in opening statements to a three-judge panel.
Specter also played a clip of a television interview in which Schwarzenegger, a defendant in the case, said he didn’t blame Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to what the American public wants its political leaders to attack first in the coming year, health care reform is near the top of the list, a new survey shows.
As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office next Tuesday, researchers from the Kaiser Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health report that finding ways to help the newly unemployed afford basic health insurance was outranked only by efforts to help businesses Read the rest of this entry »
OXNARD, Calif.—Authorities say two men whose boat capsized off the coast of Oxnard have died.
Mike Tellez of the Ventura County coroner’s office says 59-year-old Wen Xiang Lu of El Monte and Shao Shun Peng of Arcadia were pronounced dead Tuesday at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard after they were pulled from the water by rescue crews.
Oxnard fire spokeswoman Deborah Shane says hordes of rescuers including lifeguards, sheriff’s Read the rest of this entry »