Posts Tagged ‘health
Survey results from Lincoln Alternative High — not for the squeamish
Much of the following information comes from a survey done by Walla Walla Public School District intervention specialist, Brook Bouchey, at Lincoln Alternative High School in March, 2009.
While this posting is not the complete list of Bouchey’s statistics, and some facts are for America as a whole, the numbers are thought-provoking.
For more of the story, [...]
This almost buzzed right past me
We get a lot of press releases in our inboxes here at the newspaper, most of which we immediately add to the category that contains information on having amazing sex lives and making $5,000 a week working from home.
In my role as health reporter, many releases I get are from “medical institutions” and those land [...]
And you sent me diet pills why?
Last week my editor forwarded an email to me from a marketing company, one of the hundreds that come in every week.
“Could be fun,” he added to the message. Which mostly translates into “will be work,” but I’m loathe to ignore stuff like that — about 50 percent of the time stuff I think I’m [...]
Helmet head, if you don’t mind
So I get that people are in the mood to save money AND the world. I’ve seen more people on bikes in Walla Walla in the last few months that I did in the previous 13 years. Some of this scene is adorable…husband and wife biking to work, looking earnest and a tiny bit righteous. [...]
