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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
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Barb Cox, a Plymouth city hall worker, holds a rejected ballot that was challenged by the Franken Campaign Thursday in Plymouth, Minn. Disputed ballots in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race are growing at a pace likely to dwarf the 215- vote margin before the recount. And that makes it tough to tell whether Coleman or Franken is gaining an edge as the recount progresses.
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State administrators in Alaska recently used funds received from the 1998 tobacco settlement to complete the University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Debate about use of funds drags on
States divided on how to spend money received from tobacco settlement
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In 2006, Alaska desperately needed cash to complete a museum featuring a mummified bison and other natural wonders of the frozen north. So the state dipped into its share of the landmark 1998 tobacco settlement.
The billions that began flowing from cigarette makers to the states a decade ago also helped outfit the Niagara County, N.Y., golf course with new carts and sprinklers. And the money has gone toward college scholarships in Michigan, tax breaks in Illinois and Ohio, a dog catcher in Lincoln, Neb., and jails and schools elsewhere around the country.
Despite the promises of politicians and policymakers, states and counties have spent the lion's share of the settlement money on things that have nothing to do with public health or smoking, even as oncefalling teen smoking rates have stagnated.
Of the $61.5 billion divided among 46 states between 2000 and 2006, only 30 percent was spent on health care, according to federal Government Accountability Office data analyzed by The Associated Press. Less than 4 percent went to anti-smoking efforts.
"A lot of people on both sides thought we were going to enter a new Eden, and we haven't," said Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends at the American Cancer Society.
But even then, lawmakers and others were eyeing the money for other needs.
States defend the myriad ways they have spent their tobacco money, which is still being paid out in annual installments and is expected to total $294 billion over 25 years in today's dollars. They note that no strings were attached to the settlement reached on Nov. 23, 1998, and that anti-smoking campaigns do not cost billions.
"Our view was, that was money that we had to spend as a result of tobacco-related illnesses. This was paying us back for that," said Scott Pattison, executive director of the National Association of State Budget Officers.
Gregory Connolly, director of Massachusetts' Tobacco Control Program from 1993 to 2003, said the failure to funnel more of the money into anti-smoking campaigns was a retreat from implicit promises made at the time of the settlement.
"We should use this money to fund cancer research, offer health insurance to the poor, keep kids from smoking and arrest those who sell tobacco products to our children," said then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher.
States had sued the industry to recover the crushing costs of treating smoking-related illnesses in people enrolled in public health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Big Tobacco also agreed to eliminate advertising aimed at teenagers. In return, it won protection from future lawsuits.
At the time, many states intended to spend settlement money on health care and anti-smoking campaigns.
"Every state court case had that built into it, that we're here for the kids," said Connolly, now a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "But the legislatures said, 'This is our money. Thanks for suing, but we're going to decide how to spend the money.'"
Over the years, about two dozen states have sold off portions of their annual tobacco-settlement payments for upfront money, sometimes for pennies on the dollar. And now, with the economy in crisis, more states are proposing to dip into their tobacco money to solve some of their problems.
ODD NEWS New York couple helps butterfly on its trip south
LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. — A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama.
The insect's broken wing was painstakingly splinted by an upstate New York couple who then helped it hitch a ride south after the weather in the southern Adirondacks turned cold.
On Sunday, the couple took the healed monarch in a shoebox to Scotty's, a popular and busy truck stop about 35 miles north of Albany. Anybody looking for company on the trip south?
She and her partner, Mike Parwana, fed it rotting pears and water mixed with honey from bees they keep. The butterfly fattened but the question remained: What about the broken wing?
"And all these truckers looked down at their shoes," Parwana told the newspaper. "If you ever want to feel strange, walk into Scotty's and just put it out there that you want them to take a box south."
About three weeks ago, Jeannette Brandt was out for a bike ride in rural Hadley when she spied the injured butterfly and took it home in her emptied water bottle.
A search of the internet turned up a nine-minute video demonstration posted by the Live Monarch Foundation, a nonprofit group from Boca Raton, Fla., on how to fix a broken butterfly wing. A little contact cement on the wing, some tiny cardboard splints, and the bruised butterfly was back in business.
Eventually, a trucker from Alabama, on his way to Florida, raised his hand.
On Tuesday, the trucker called: The butterfly was loose in Florida with its mended wing.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A Florida man is accused of tossing a sandwich at his girlfriend as they cruised down an interstate, knocking off her glasses and nearly causing her to lose control of the car.
other week or so before it would fly" Parwana told the Post-Star newspaper of Glens Falls
Police say 19-year-old Emmanuelle Rodriguez is charged with domestic battery for Friday's sandwich-tossing incident. According to police, Rodriguez became angry during an argument as she drove and threw the sandwich at her because he didn't want to hit her.
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"It was still weak. It was an-
A police report did not specify the type of sandwich involved.
Police also say Rodriguez ripped off the rearview mirror and used it to break the windshield.
Rodriguez was released Saturday on $7,500 bail. Court records show Rodriguez did not have an attorney as of Thursday.
The entertainment event "FREE Cosmic Bowling" will begin at 10 p.m. in Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
The seminar "Diagnostic insufficiency." The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
The student group event "St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center: Theme PART-y" will begin at 8 p.m. in the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
The "SUA Feature Film: The Dark Knight" will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The University Dance Company Concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
The lecture "Springs and Things: Nature's Design Approach for Robustness in Biological Function" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in 2010 Malott.
The social event "TGIF" will begin at 4 p.m. in Adams Alumni Center.
The workshop "Poster Presentations for Beginners" will begin at 3 p.m. in the Gridiron Room in the Burge Union.
The lecture "Binary recursive partitioning methods and psychology applications" will begin at 2 p.m. in 547 Fraser.
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Sure, we know that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball. But did you know he is also credited by many for having invented the football helmet?
The student group event "Ceramics Club: Holiday Craft Sale" will begin at 8:30 a.m. on the fourth floor in the Kansas Union.
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The seminar "Orientally Splendid and Weirdly Romantic Spectacular Pilgrimage to Mecca"; Orientalism and American Popular Culture" will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center.
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RIALTO, Calif. — A commuter train collided with a freight train Thursday in California, producing no serious injuries but bringing back memories of a deadly commuter-train wreck in the region two months ago.
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A Metrolink train heading east from Los Angeles toward San Bernardino collided with a BNSF train about a half-mile from the Metrolink station in Rialto around 11:30 a.m., spokeswoman Joanna Capelle said.
The trains sideswiped each other and both remained upright on the tracks, Rialto police Lt. Joe Cirilo said. Police said five people were taken to area hospitals.
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