Miscellaneous

• Health Care Commission Advocates for Mandatory Insurance in Colorado

  Linda Snyder | February 01, 2008 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Colorado Governor, Bill Owens, has been trying to find a way to make it possible for the 800,000 Coloradans who don't have health insurance, to have proper health care. A state commission on health care is advising that everyone in Colorado should be required to have medical insurance along with having the state put more money into child health care and Medicaid. It is know that these proposals...

• Colorado Ballot Initiative Would Require Companies to Provide Health Insurance

  Linda Snyder | January 28, 2008 11:36 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Tuesday, January 29th, there will be a public hearing on a proposed ballot initiative at the State Capital in Denver."The Fair Share Health Care Initiative" would make an amendment in the Colorado Constitution requiring companies that employ 20 or more to offer health insurance coverage to employees and their dependents.A Colorado Springs postal worker, Chuck Bader, initially wrote the...

• Two Companies to pay $407 million for Mistakes in Big Dig Project

  Linda Snyder | January 24, 2008 11:43 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Wednesday, January 23rd, two companies that managed and designed the Big Dig project in Boston, MA, will have to pay $407 million to the state and federal governments due to leaky tunnels and a fatal ceiling collapse which killed a woman who was driving through a tunnel to Logan International Airport.The two companies, Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff acknowledged...

• Plane Diverts Landing in Denver due to Severe Turbulence

  Linda Snyder | January 21, 2008 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Monday morning, a United Airlines flight en route from Los Angeles to Chicago, had to land in Denver due to severe turbulence.As soon as the plane landed, paramedics came on scene to take two flight attendants and eight passengers that were injured on board to a nearby hospital.The plane landed at 3:00am according to the Denver International Airport and the plane checked out ok for...

• F.D.A. says Food from Cloned Animals is Safe

  Linda Snyder | January 16, 2008 11:49 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On Tuesday, January 15th, the Food and Drug Administration stated that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. This makes it possible for milk and meat from cloned cows to be sold in grocery stores.Numerous farmers and cloning companies have been pushing the government to approve products from cloned animals for some time. However, animal breeding takes time so it may be many years before we...

• DUI arrests are lower during Holiday celebrations in Colorado

  Linda Snyder | January 03, 2008 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  During office party weekend, December 14-17th, the amount of DUI arrests decreased over 40% this year. The Colorado State Patrol reported that during the same 3-day period last year in 2006, there were more than 475 DUI arrests made. This year it was only 285 arrests. "We hope the decline in DUI arrests is a sign that Coloradans are getting the message that driving while impaired is a crime that...

• F.B.I. to Start Showing Most Wanted on Billboards

  Linda Snyder | December 28, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) and Clear Channel Outdoor have recently teamed up to show the F.B.I.'s most wanted bank robbers, criminals and terrorists on 150 digital billboards in 20 cities nationwide.Initially, a test run in Philadelphia proved the tactic to be extremely useful in leading to arrests. The digital billboards will be showing the mug shots of the most wanted.Some...

• Whole Foods Recalls Chocolate Bars

  Linda Snyder | December 20, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, Whole Foods, recalled milk chocolate bars on Tuesday, December 18th that were sold in their stores in Colorado.The brand name 365 Organic Everyday Value Swiss Milk Chocolate Bars with Rice Crisps with the "best if used by date" of 11/21/07 was recalled due to the possibility of containing nuts that are not listed properly in the...

• Residents in Midwest still with no power

  Linda Snyder | December 18, 2007 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A week after the huge ice storm that hit the Midwest, more than 88,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma are still without power.Temperatures have been falling into the teens overnight this week, leaving people not only in the dark, but fighting the rigid coldness. Some residents in Oklahoma have spent money on hotels, thinking their power would be restored in only a couple of days. Others have...

• Another Attempt by Merck to make cholesterol drug over-the-counter

  Linda Snyder | December 14, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co., has recently made a 3rd attempt to make the cholesterol lowering drug, Mevacor, available to consumers over-the-counter. Since 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the attempts due to possibly too many of the wrong people using Mevacor and risking unnecessary side effects.Merck & Co. defended their case by arguing that only 6 million of...