California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom has named Dr. Nadine Burke Harris as the state?s first-ever Surgeon General.
As a pediatrician, entrepreneur and nonprofit CEO, Dr. Burke Harris has dedicated her professional career to understanding the link between adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress in children, and the effect both have on future health outcomes.
*You can give thanks you’re not one of the people in an Indian village that has to deal with a pissed off Leopard that showed up and wrecking havoc, to say the least.
The animal strayed into a residential area in northern India on Thursday and injured at least six people before it was locked inside a room, a forest ranger said.
*If you haven’t heard, veteran NBC news man Tom Brokaw is sitting in some deeeeep hot water today because of the comments he made Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
Brokaw, 78, has already apologized for saying that Hispanic immigrants need to do a better job of assimilating to the United States and teaching their children to speak English, but as you may have already guessed (our headline’s a good clue), Hispanic groups, including the National Association of Hispanic Journalists/NAHJis not satisfied and is not having it, according to Richard Prince’s Journal-isms blog.
*After winning the $298 million dollar New York Powerball lottery drawing, Dave Johnson has decided he’s not going to go to work as a truck driver anymore. Yes, he’s DONE.
However, it’s because of his work ethic that he won’t have to ever work a day in his life ever again. You see, he wasn’t feeling all that well on Dec 26, but made his way to work, anyway.
Good Lord! How would you like to be this couple from Auburn, Washington who had to live like they were living in a real-life horror film after they discovered someone had been watching them via their home security cameras.
According to Abby Laguidao, she installed a Nest home security system in her home in December. She had a camera positioned near the front door, and another mounted in the corner of her living room.
Laquidao shares her house with her baby daddy, Conrado Casallo, and their three children: six-year-old twins and a baby. It was shortly after installing the equipment that she started feeling like something just wasn’t right.
(Via Yahoo News) – They’re red and white and debated all over.
The baseball caps embroidered with the campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” are synonymous with President Donald Trump’s administration, and have become a hot-button topic, especially in the wake of a racially charged confrontation last week near Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.
Many, including actress and activist Alyssa Milano, now are calling the baseball caps the modern-day white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan, representing a white nationalist ideology pushed by the president.
*We can only shake our collective heads at what’s happening to a straight-A honor student who is facing a possible 10-day in-school suspension all because he unknowingly used counterfeit money to purchase his lunch.
The school is even considering this punishment in spite of the student’s parents filing a police report regarding the counterfeit $20 bill.
