Posted on 03/20/2010 7:27:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Boston has received $12.5 million in federal stimulus funding for a sweeping new effort to combat obesity and reduce smoking, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday.
“This funding will help us move closer to that goal and aid our citywide effort to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure,’’ Menino said in a statement. The mayor announced the funding at the John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute at Northeastern University.
A total of $372 million in prevention grants has been awarded nationwide. The money will go toward, among other things, creating additional space for community gardens, expanding bike-share programs, and beefing up antismoking campaigns.
“The point of this work is to increase our structural capacity and change attitudes in ways that afford all Boston residents the opportunity to live healthy lives, whether that’s drinking less soda, biking or walking to work or school, or living in a smoke-free residence,’’ Barbara Ferrer, executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission.
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Excellent.
We all know how important gardens and bike paths are to a country on the brink of economic collapse...
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Boston has received $12.5 million in federal stimulus funding for
a sweeping new effort to combat obesity and reduce smoking,...
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Millions of taxpayer dollars...to tell people things they already know.
But I guess liberal nutters in places like Taxachussetts may have
forgetten common-sense and knowledge.
Pass the Maalox please.
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“Pass the Maalox please.”
Fresh out.........I’ll go to Walgreens and pick us up a few bottles.
Maybe they’ll give us a quantity discount. :)
55 gallon drum ?
Good to know that with the Massachusetts health insurance scheme driving the Commonwealth to bankruptcy, we can count on the federal government to spend our tax dollars shoring up the system.
The question is, when the FEDERAL health insurance scheme drives the NATION to bankruptcy, to whom do we go for funds - the Chinese?
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