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Good afternoon Chairman Conyers, Ranking Member Smith, Members of the Committee and colleagues. I appreciate the opportunity to testify today.
“I think that people need to know that health care reform is good stuff. We spent $70 million on uncompensated care in District 1 last year. That's the new face of Medical - an unemployed breadwinner who can't afford COBRA,” Thompson said.
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.
Several years from now, migratory birds, native grasses, salmon and steelhead are expected to ply the briny marshes, along with human visitors drawn to its hiking trails, duck stands and boating channels, experts say.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, will be in American Canyon on Monday to attend a ceremony during which city officials plan to name a future hiking trail after him. The 2 p.m. public ceremony will be near the corner of Eucalyptus Drive and Wetlands Edge Road. Â The future “Congressman Mike Thompson Loop Trail” is a 1.8-mile loop that may open to the public in the fall of 2011.
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.
In a nation where many parents are too busy to cook, fast food is not just cheap but pervasive and few adults model the active life that their children need, obesity is nearly inevitable, they said.