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Congressman Mike Thompson held an informal town hall meeting in the courtyard of the Jerold Phelps Community Hospital in Garberville on Wednesday, Sept. 1.
Approximately 50 people attended the question-and-answer session in the shade of the big magnolia tree during the noon hour.
Scooping up a heaping load of black mud, an excavator ripped through a 100-year-old earthen barrier between the Napa River and a 1,400-acre swath of former salt ponds Wednesday afternoon, marking the final step in one of the largest wetlands restoration projects in U.S. history.
America's worsening statistics for childhood obesity are a national shame, but don't blame the kids, speakers at a Queen of the Valley Medical Center forum said Thursday.
Instead of demonizing overweight kids, which only makes the problem worse, this country needs to re-examine dysfunctional aspects of today's culture, health-care workers said.
Rep. Wally Herger wants to junk the new federal health care law, saying small businesses are under siege and "looming devastation" awaits the economy.
Rep. Dan Lungren opts for a more incremental approach, proposing to scrap some reporting requirements for small businesses contained in the law.
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