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Entries for December 12th, 2007

Alabama ranks 49th for antitobacco programs for children

Another one of those shameful rankings for Alabama. Tobacco prevention should be a much higher priority in this state and it is awful for everyone that it isn’t.

Alabama ranks 49th for antitobacco programs for children - Birmingham Business Journal:

Anytime we’re ahead of anyone…

…in anything, we need to shout it to the heavens.

In Nebraska, the state is about one-third of the way through a two-year project to consolidate e-mail. ‘We are a little bit behind Alabama, but we are doing the same thing as Alabama,’ Chief Information Officer Brenda Decker said.

State gov’t slow to network e-mail