by Jodi Mathews | May 13, 2003 | News
Many restaurants were full this past Sunday for Mother’s Day. But according to a recent Gallup Poll, eating out has become a way of life for Americans, and not just on special occasions. The mid-April poll found that three in four Americans had eaten dinner in a...
by Jodi Mathews | May 12, 2003 | News
Talk of changing a zoning code that prevents some Amish families from keeping horses has turned from a local spat into a religious-freedom issue. The three supervisors of Walker Township, Pa., heard arguments from townspeople and Amish folk about the zoning law that...
by Jodi Mathews | May 8, 2003 | News
Almost 20 years ago, the world rallied in response to media images of starving people in Ethiopia. Today, a famine that some fear could be worse than the one that killed nearly a million people in 1984 and 1985 is by comparison going largely unnoticed, leaving aid...
by Jodi Mathews | May 5, 2003 | News
The number of black children living in “extreme” poverty has risen sharply in the last few years, according to a study of census figures by the Children’s Defense Fund. The number of extremely poor black children stood at 932,000 in 2001, according...
by Jodi Mathews | May 4, 2003 | News
Drinking and driving kills. And it’s killing more Americans every year. Traffic fatalities last year were at the highest level since 1990, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. And alcohol was a factor in 42 percent of those deaths, a total of...
