Saturday, January 9, 2010

…1/8-10: a tissue issue

18º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…GAQ; fourth grade class wants action by the ABQ GOVT after one of their friends was struck by a car while walking home from school; is a new school sports stadium needed on the W Side of ABQ?; the Farmington region of San Juan CNTY has seen a sharp increase in the jobless rate, now at 8.9%; Rail Runner pins & patches will be available soon; new smog regulations may affect several NM counties; will Pete Domenici, JR run for GOV?; saw a guy wearing sandals, and no socks in this cold weather; FED grant could create ‘green jobs’ in NM; man sat beside me on the PM R/R, and said he had ‘weathered’ hurricanes Katrina & Rita, in New Orleans, then moved to Houston, then leased a home in N Socorro CNTY so he & his wife could be closer to their son; there was a film crew near downtown Duke City, and another near Olde Towne, so was KOAT reporter Dominic Garcia; CYFD worker faces charges of child abuse; ABQ firemen awarded for rescuing tenants suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning; why are Duke City dogs getting Parvo?; Nancy was wearing a long, thick coat today; NM private schools are maintaining enrollment, some costing $11K per year to attend; all of the ABQ red light camera revenue goes to the state; a cold night tonight;
will MGR return to work?: who knew?; no heat on AM R/R, back doors kept getting stuck; Code Purple by noon; left at 3P, got home by 5:15P, after seeing my friends at the comic book store; Tim is from the Pittsburgh area, and knows Kittanning;

28 vehicle pileup on I-20 in ATL near Hartsfield INTL ; snow in Milwaukee & Chicago; flurries in Detroit, Cleveland, NYC, Boston; below zero wind chills from Dakotas to TX; very cold in the N Rockies, down to Dallas, ATL & Orlando; ice in GA shuts down roads & schools; snow in Cincinnati, Baltimore, INDY, Pittsburgh & DC; Key West reached a record low yesterday, and more cold weather is expected; traveling on parts of I-90 will be ‘tricky’;
is the $9 billion FL orange crop threatened by the arctic blast?; INTEL agencies failed to connect facts, but no one will be fired; Congress undecided about taxing ‘Cadillac’ health plans, but reform may create some new jobs; ABC AM News is 18 years old; jobless rate nears 10%; UPS eliminates 1,800 jobs; more people have not worked for longer periods of time; one person has died at an IN steel plant explosion; Elvis would have been 75 years old; many people now doing several ‘gigs’ at one time; more low income senior citizens may be able to join a discount prescription drug program; people are moving money to ‘hometown’ banks, or credit unions; tragedy: NY man killed his daughter & her babysitter; two more flights get disrupted by unruly passengers; many people still do not believe the economy is getting better; home improvement book being recalled for providing instructions on wiring a home; bad weather forced a Chicago bound Amtrak train to arrive one day later than scheduled; unsold clothes are going into the trash; ‘obedience rules!’; the DOW ended up; the person who caused the Newark security breech scare has been arrested;
new Salmonella strain linked to African frogs?; misspelled name kept ‘underwear bomber’ off the ‘no fly’ list?, today, he made his first court appearance in Detroit, he is now referred to as the ‘Christmas Day terrorist’; now, the renamed Burj Kahlifa; gold is $1,132.70 an ounce; oil is $82.74 per barrel; China is now the number one exporter of goods, surpassing Germany; verbal threats result in three people being arrested on a plane at Heathrow Airport;

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