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Swine-proof Santas Prepare for Holiday Onslaught

November 20, 2009 – 5:08 pm

All this talk of H1N1 deadliness has obscured one important at-risk demographic. They’re not children. They’re not pregnant women. And no, they’re not the elderly.
Ye, they be mall Santas.
Many of the nation’s Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those runny-nosed kids. There’s also the not-so-little matter of [...]

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Lexington: H1N1 Capital of the Commonwealth

November 10, 2009 – 5:22 pm

Recently, we informed you that WLKY ran a story about how Louisville is the number-one city in these United States for dirtiest internet keyword searches: Because this information is useful. Now we are proud to report that we’ve managed to dodge another auspicious title, this time being the county with the second-most reported swine flu [...]

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KY: Fighting Mountain Dew Mouth, Tooth For Tooth

October 14, 2009 – 3:29 pm

Fun Fact: Kentucky ranks 2nd in the nation for loss of natural teeth — a fact attributable to our less-than-exemplary access to proper dental services, which is itself a reflection of historic poverty, under-education, disdain of “elitist” doctors and/or a fondness for chewing tobacco. Call us old-fashioned!
That is precisely why Gov. Steve Beshear’s announcement of a cutely acronymed initiative called Access for Babies [...]

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Bring Out Your Dead

October 1, 2009 – 5:07 pm

If you’d like a good barometer to discern just how badly cash-strapped local and state governments are fairing across this gilded land of ‘Merica, take a peek at this:
Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to [...]

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2 + 2 = Ham sandwich

August 26, 2009 – 2:54 pm

 
Attention fatties: If you value your brain, put down that Famous Bowl and step away from the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. A new UCLA study shows that obese people exhibit higher levels of brain degeneration than their svelte counterparts. On average, corpulent individuals have brains aged prematurely by as much as 8 years.
More than 300 million worldwide [...]

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Healthy Start gets federal boost

June 22, 2009 – 2:45 pm

The Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness received a federal grant today for $6.3 million for its Healthy Start initiative that will fund the program for the next five years. Congressman John Yarmuth, D-3rd district, presented the health department with its first installment of $1,275,000, which will be allocated annually by the U.S. [...]

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McConnell Sick, Surly

March 13, 2009 – 4:02 pm

Yet not a socialist… at least that was the gist of Kentucky’s only sane senator, whom this morning attended one of those weird political breakfasts that are all the rage these days.
We can definitely rule out syphilis as the cause of Mitch’s “stern” words for President Obama, because upon closer examination it’s nothing more than [...]

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