| Child health spurs support for smoking ban
Anyone who smokes in a car in front of kids is a knucklehead," the physician emphasized in an interview after the hearing. "But I'm afraid that in a couple of years we'll be back, talking about the progress we've made and thinking about taking the next step." But more than a dozen people testified in enthusiastic support of the bills — LD 2012, sponsored by Rep. Brian Duprey, R-Hampden, and LD 2085, sponsored by Rep. Patricia Blanchette, D-Bangor. The bills are likely to be merged as the committee prepares to vote on them. In introducing his bill, Duprey acknowledged himself as an unlikely sponsor of a measure to restrict personal behavior. A self-described "very big conservative" and "libertarian," Duprey said he was persuaded of the rightness of the Bangor ordinance when he realized that it was working.
Social shopping sites cause online chatter
Beckie Tran doesn't have kids, which means she usually has no clue what presents to buy for her friends' children. Fortunately she gets advice from a separate group of buddies -- including people she's never even met.
Tran gets those gift ideas, and tips on dozens of other kinds of products, from her network of friends on Kaboodle.com, a Web site devoted to the fast-growing Internet category of "social shopping."
Social shopping sites with such names as Kaboodle, ThisNext, Wishpot and StyleHive combine two of the Web's most prominent activities: engaging in commerce and chatting with like-minded folks. The sites don't directly sell things, but encourage users to share links to good bargains, obscure finds, products that work and ones that don't.
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Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas are teaching the rest of the nation how ...
The George S. May Company is going to join Magedson's corporate advocacy program. (Kushnir declined to say how much he's paying.) Basically, Kushnir will pay Magedson to reveal the complainants against the company, and then Kushnir can do what he would have wanted to do all along address them. Good news for Magedson. But not such good news for the people who had anonymously blasted George S. May. After all, Magedson will be giving them up. And if they're current employees, they're probably going to be in trouble with a capital T. Kushnir says he won't sue anybody he's learned his lesson but if it's a disgruntled secretary who called the founder a pedophile, it's hard to imagine things will end happily for her. Kushnir says he's happy with how things ended. But the incident does raise some ethical questions.
Talks could lead to new Raleigh Hills-area fire station
Talks have started that could eventually lead to construction of a new fire station near the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway between Hillsdale and Raleigh Hills. Representatives of Portland Fire and Rescue and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue are beginning a discussion that could, in about three or four years, create a joint station in the area near Southwest Vermont Street, 45th Avenue and Oleson Road. Even though the talks are in the early stages, both departments said the station was needed because of a gap in protection along the highway near the boundary between Multnomah and Washington counties. "We've needed a station out there for a long time," said Jim Beery, Portland Fire and Rescue's emergency operations division chief. "Tualatin has needed a station out there, too.
Your Hometown News - Biloxi
Residents of some coast FEMA trailer parks say they have about a week to move out, yet they're not feeling anxious. FEMA plans to close two parks on February 29th, one on Howard Avenue in Biloxi, the other on Church Avenue in Pass Christian. People living in those parks must move out 30 days ahead of time.
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