Tuesday Open Line


Raleigh Tops List of America’s Healthiet Cities for Women. Scrutinising the stats across the U.S. is Women’s Health magazine, who has compiled its latest healthiest cities for women list, naming Raleigh, North Carolina as the best place to live as a woman. Combining a wide selection of health, wellbeing and social factors across 30 categories including how often they visited doctors and obesity rates, the magazine crunched the numbers from 100 cities. (Read more)

How ‘Healthy’ is Henderson?  We have the YMCA, several fitness centers, places like Aim High, several mental health organizations.   Do you feel your town provides a ‘Health’ experience?  What can be done better?

Don’t forget to send in your suggestions to the Vance County Board of Commissioners for their annual retreat this weekend.  Link is in our header menu Retreat Suggestions


Without comment, stat Easley won’t have to pay fine to get law license back.  Without comment, state officials have made minor changes to amend an order that suspends the law license of former Gov. Mike Easley for a total of two years.  Easley, a Democrat and two-term governor who has been a lawyer since 1976, will still be eligible to receive his law license back in December, under the revised order.  After a report in The News & Observer last week questioned facts in the bar report, the bar said it would amend the report.  All officials involved declined to comment. The disciplinary hearing commissioners said they would not respond to questions. (Read More)

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