Official quits breast cancer charity over funding dispute
An executive with a major U.S. breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for the country's best-known family planning organization. The resignation came in a letter obtained by The Associated Press. (Source: CTV Health)
Healthier, Smarter Growth [Editorial]
For years, county leaders here have considered sound urban planning mainly as a political issue -- an issue tainted by the specter of intruding on personal property rights and free enterprise. As a result, they have regularly rejected calls for comprehensive land-use planning for the unincorporated areas of the county. But as it turns out, the lack of urban planning in suburbia -- here and elsewhere -- is now being acknowledged as a critical public health issue. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Childhood Obesity)
