…10/25-08: invention, intervention & innovation

45º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…Indian Summer arrives; allergies on the rise; avoid Nob Hill & UNM areas today, where two PRES candidates will speak; female pedestrian killed last night at I-25 & Paseo del Norte; another firefighter got drunk and fired her weapon while off duty: some people cannot handle stress; NM political candidate says ‘we’ created the Taliban?; S Valley version of ‘Zozobra’ will be burned this week; student was knocked unconscious at ABQ school, but was not given immediate medical treatment, and was moved to the nurse’s office, before determining if he may have had internal injuries [which he did], why do no one call 911; Gordon Lightfoot will appear in the Duke City; $400K of Medicaid funds misused by nine people, one of whom worked at the Human Services DEPT; both PRES candidates will be blocks away from each other in the Duke City; woman helped man rape a four year old girl; guards were attacked in side a high security area of a Curry CNTY jail; Brad made great Meat Loaf; more people leave restrooms without washing their hands; low turnout for McCain rally; two fatal crashes, plus explosions, took place along I-40, W of Gallup, in AZ: traffic routed through the Navajo Nation;

Bush will express his concern during his weekly radio message; the collapse of AIG means more transit systems will mean higher fares, and fewer services; after an attack on her family; PA campaign worker said the attack on her because she was a McCain supporter, was a hoax; gap between Obama & McCain is shrinking; OH female robber strikes three times in one week; how will the ‘youth vote’ affect PRES election; Jerry Lewis makes another anti-gay slur, this time in an effeminate position; while family murders linked to domestic abuse, Jennifer Hudson’s nephew is now missing; NATL AVG price of gas falls to $2.735 per gallon; AK & OK have the highest & lowest costs; NATL City Bank of OH being sold; energy jolt drink called ‘Cocaine’ may be pulled off the market; Bush keeps saying we must be patient; Palin & the AK pipeline, whose bidding was not OK; GA bank going under?; the eyes of the US were focused on ABQ, and NM; lower gas prices may help end recession?; some baby clothes causing rash?; ‘we never hide from history’; Sara will be ‘the country bumpkin’; two people killed, two others wounded after five drive by shootings in NJ; change the country, change the world?; the Delta Queen has had her last ride; America needs a fighter?; GA parents face time in prison if their children are not in school; fair trials vs. secret places; ‘under the eyes of our ancestors’; female AR newswoman died from her brutal injuries; in E TN, five people die in fiery crash between a car & an SUV; SC woman wins lawsuit after workers thought she was passing fake bills in TARGET store, and flashed her photo across the Internet: it was just an older dollar bill, printed in the 1970s; clashes between Palin & McCain staff?; two dogs are dead after attacked y bees in FL town;

a leukemia drug that can also help multiple sclerosis?; more ‘emergency funds’ are being used to aid banks…again, Asian & European leaders think they have the solution to the global economic crisis, working with the IMF, although there are no clear details about this new plan; students studying abroad cannot return to the US, loans cannot be repaid; add PAK to the list of countries struggling with financial problems; Saudi Arabia stocks start to slide downhill, especially oil refineries, INS companies & banks; Chinese eggs contain melamine; cholera surfaces in W Africa;