Pedro Espada, John Catsimatidis trade barbs
Friday, February 20th 2009, 2:09 AM
state senator and a billionaire mayoral candidate traded charges Thursday that one’s a miser and the other is stiffing him on the rent.
And no, the billionaire is not
.
State Sen.
, who runs the
Healthcare Network, said he’s being forced to close one of his longtime facilities today because it can no longer meet “the astronomical rent demands” of its landlord, Read the rest of this entry »

Shares of women’s clothing retailers traded mostly higher on Tuesday, despite more data showing consumers were reluctant to spend this holiday season.
The International Council of Shopping Centers said weekly same-store sales dropped 1.5 percent last week amid continued economic woes and wintry weather.
On a year-over-year basis, same-store sales fell 1.8 percent, according to the association’s weekly index, which tracks sales of about 40 retailers.
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, police commissioner Max Daniel has said that the export of soft drugs from the Netherlands generates two billion euros a year. According to Mr Daniel, 80 percent or some 500 tons of the drugs grown in the Netherlands, is destined for the export market, particularly England, Germany, France and the Scandinavian countries. The demand for home grown cannabis has also increased substantially in the Baltic States. In the Netherlands, some 400,000 people Read the rest of this entry »

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — The U.S. is suspending a trade deal with Bolivia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. She called it unfortunate but necessary because Bolivian President Evo Morales has failed to improve anti-drug efforts.
Rice made the announcement just as Bolivian envoys arrived at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office in Washington to lobby for continued participation in the Andean trade pact, which lowers Read the rest of this entry »

November 16, 2008 14:37 PM
DUBAI, Nov 16 (Bernama) — Dubai Customs has established a 120-member task force in an effort to combat the illegal trade in drugs, weapons and other contraband, said its executive director Mohammad Al-Marri.
“The team will operate at every entry point in the emirate, using the latest technology and detection methods available,” he was quoted as saying by The National.
In implementing its duty, he added, the unit Read the rest of this entry »

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday blamed NATO’s failure to stamp out heroin production in Afghanistan for a rise in domestic drugs use.
U.S.-led forces entered Afghanistan to chase out Taliban Islamists after the al Qaeda attacks on the United States in 2001, but NATO members only agreed last year they could carry out direct strikes on drug traffickers.
This was too late to prevent drug addiction becoming a serious problem in Russia, Viktor Read the rest of this entry »

reports from Fayetteville, N.C., on the presidential race.
Another ugly, complicated fight broke out in the presidential contest today over health care.
In this case, the issue involves comments made by
, Sen.
senior policy adviser, about the McCain health care plan. The plan would give people a tax break toward insurance whether they get it through an employer or not. He would partially replace the tax advantage now tied to employment with Read the rest of this entry »

Nato has agreed its troops will be allowed to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan.
Alliance spokesman James Appathurai said troops will act with Afghan forces “against facilities and facilitators” using drugs to finance the Taleban.
Afghan forces have taken the lead in the fight against the drugs industry until now. The US wants more aggressive tactics against the opium trade.
Nato defence ministers reached agreement at Read the rest of this entry »

WHAT Precision Fitness, a fitness business model focused on affordable
personal training, will be exhibiting at this year’s National
Fitness Trade Show, presented in association with the
International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA)
and the American Council on Exercise (ACE). Precision Fitness
founder and fitness entrepreneur Mike Salerno will be on-hand to
help visitors Read the rest of this entry »

The US Federal Trade Commission has announced busting a vast international spam network run by the Herbal King gang, aka Affking, that peddled prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement pills by sending spam e-mails from web sites in China and shipping drugs from India.
The US trade regulator also persuaded a federal court in Chicago to freeze the group’s assets and order the spam network to shut down.
Herbal King operated under different names Read the rest of this entry »