LA Time reporter - New Orleans native Richard Fausset (author of the Mobile-Cuba story) on Dr Benjamin.

 http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-regina-benjamin20-2009jul20,0,3183792.story

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Up 50% since the bleak days of the economic crisis, the stock market has offered back some of the 401K losses for those that knew what goes down must come up. CATV gave the buy signal at 6,700 and 7,200.

Despite what ever statistics may show, and statistics are easily manipulated, I have never seen crime like this in Mobile.  See the District 7 report below.  This does not include the robbery of another man getting out of his car right by Springhill College yesterday. How many times have you heard …

Have you looked at your July electric bill?   Then you are probably like the woman in Wednesday’s Press Register’s Sound Off, who exclaims, what is going on???   400 bucks for a 2300 square foot home, thermostat on 78?

CA.TV has checked around, and everyone says their bill has shot up a mysterious hundred dollars.  Rick at Riviera …

New medical warnings have been issued, saying tanning beds cause cancer in the same category as smoking!

http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20090728/who-tanning-beds-cause-cancer

The water at Gulf Shores Public Beach is the cleanest and best-monitored in the South, according to a report released today by the National Resources Defense Council.

Using data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the NRDC evaluated 200 public beaches around the based …

For the past decade, scientists have suggested that the U.S. 98 Causeway is hurting Mobile Bay and the vast and swampy Mobile-Tensaw Delta to the north by artificially splitting one of the nation’s largest coastal estuaries in two.

Short of removing the Causeway entirely, the best …

Fairhope, Alabama’s Southern Comfort

Memorist Rick Bragg finds forgiving soil along the brown sand stretch of Mobile Bay

• By Rick Bragg
• Smithsonian magazine, June 2009

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/My-Kind-of-Town-Fairhope-Alabama.html

Big Week for Jazz in Mobile, as outined by Lawrence Specker:

http://blog.al.com/just-coasting/2009/07/big_week_ahead_for_jazz_fans_i.html

Featuring the much-underrated Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival

http://www.gcehjazzfest.com/

Lance came in 3rd.  He is a steely-eyed missile man.  Even better, Mr. Armstrong’s foundation is changing lives.   Check out the website.   www.livestrong.com   This sucker has a calorie tracker, symptom checker, and you won’t believe all else.  For Free.  

Trade in a gas guzzler, and get up to $4,500 credit toward new fuel economy vehicle.  

Set to end November 1 or when money runs out.

www.cars.gov

Meanwhile, USA Today is looking for America’s worst clunker.   www.usatoday.com

Come on, Alabama! 

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We highly recommend the Playhouse in the Park’s production of High School Musical. Although great for youngsters, it really is entertaining for everybody (honestly).  The cast, particularly the leads, are surprisingly talented young actors and singers.

http://www.playhouseinthepark.org/

Of course anytime someone receives public accolades or a public position, the first thing the media does is seek to find some controversy or criticism.  Such is the case from these idiotic comments on Dr Benjamin:

“It tends to undermine her credibility,” Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, …

Mobile artist and sculptor gave lectures and studio tours for the Mobile Museum of Art today.

His most memorable comment in his gallery: “I’m a poster child for ADD (attention deficit disorder) … just look around you”

Casey Downing Art…