Tag: childhood obesity

Bloomberg shot down on childhood obesity
ecthompsonmd March 12, 2013

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg fought a huge problem, childhood obesity. I have no idea how long he thought about the problem, how many meetings he held or how many experts he talked to. Somehow, he decided that one way to combat childhood obesity would be to simply limit the size of sugary soft drinks. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was shot down by State Supreme Court Justice Milton A. Tingling. From NYT: In an unusually critical opinion, Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of State Supreme Court in Manhattan called the limits “arbitrary and capricious,” echoing the complaints of city business owners and

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What's going on: News Round up
ecthompsonmd May 19, 2008

Monday’s News: Remember the story about Al Qaeda members who were associated with the USS Cole bombing that were walking around free in Yemeni. Well, a Yemeni judge has picked up Jaber Elbaneh and thrown him in jail. I’m not sure what that means or how long he will stay there, but this is a good first step (seven years too late. ) Dick Morris, who regularly appears on Fox “News,” wrote an incoherent piece in the Washington Post yesterday. I’m still trying to deconstruct it. I think he is trying to say that Senator Barack Obama is ahead of Senator

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