| Governor's Office Re-Opens In Western Mass.
In the vestibule, empty shelves soon will be filled with new brochures on state programs, grant applications, tourism and other topics of possible interest to visitors. Cardona, 39, a Springfield native appointed in January to run the office, said she receives a steady stream of calls from throughout the four-county region. Many people have questions about state services or suggestions on improving programs. Others need help with everything from starting a new business to understanding the state's health care insurance requirements. As word has spread that the office reopened, she said, drop-in visits have increased, too. "Our goal is to make this office as valuable a resource as possible," Cardona said. "The governor has clearly said his intention is to be the governor for the entire state, and I do believe he'll be using this office frequently." Full-time branch offices are common in many larger states nationwide, Massachusetts and Connecticut are the only New England states that have them.
Perry Brown: Sali's vote shows lack of compassion for uninsured ...
Congress recently once again failed to stand up for children. On Jan. 23, U.S. Rep. Bill Sali joined with 151 other U.S. representatives to uphold President Bush's veto of legislation that would have provided health care coverage for millions of children across the United States, including 12,479 children in our own state (2005 census), who have no health insurance at all. For these million-plus families across the United States, the new year doesn't bring new opportunities. For them, 2008 is beginning to look a lot like 2007. Sali's vote to uphold the veto, means these families - our neighbors, our children's friends - will continue to hope daily that their children won't become ill or get injured, and that even a minor illness won't spiral their family into financial disaster.Just today, I cared for an uninsured child whose family could not afford asthma medications that cost $100 per month; as a result of not having these medications, the child is now hospitalized, at the cost of several thousand dollars.
Are Canada's athletes receiving enough funding?
Kids in sports are always better students its been proven year in and year out, so to establish good role models as apposed to the junk they watch coming out of Hollywood!! Pro athletes is not what we are talking about here, we are talking about an elite amateur athlete that gets no breaks and needs to be a waiter and train in order to try and represent his or her country. We are so quick to just accept millions of dollars worth of renovations??? for a building when it takes a hundred thousand only to build a house from the ground up. Money is being blown by the Goverment on frivoulous things and so why not amateur athletes as well??? .
UK women can learn from Spanish señoritas
First their enlightened government banned size-zero models. Now a new survey shows that most women in Spain are happy with their bodies. Maria Alvarez reveals why Spanish women do get fat - but don't mind There is a scene in Pedro Almodóvar's most recent film, Volver, in which Penélope Cruz visits her childhood village in La Mancha, teenage daughter in tow, to see her ageing Aunt Paula. The latter's memory is hazy. Upon embracing Cruz, she says: "You're very thin," and goes on to ask, "Have you had your baby?" To which Cruz, a regular visitor, replies: "Fourteen years ago." Felicity Kendal says bulimia is inevitable Lucy O'Brien: Girls just wanna have total control .
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