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Youth ride to school free from alcohol ad exposure BOSTON, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On December 13, 2012, at Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, the SAFE-MA (Supporting an Alcohol Ad-Free Environment in Massachusetts) collaborative sponsored a celebration to honor Secretary of Transportation Richard Davey, former Governor Michael Dukakis and his wife Kitty, and the Allston-Brighton Substance Abuse Task Force (ABSATF) youth coalition for their roles in banning...

Press Conference on January 26, Outside Park Street T Station to Support Passage of HB 851 BOSTON, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Massachusetts ranks among the top ten states for underage drinking, but pending legislation might help the Commonwealth to lose that distinction. One factor that raises the likelihood of underage drinking is exposure to alcohol advertising. Massachusetts can reduce this exposure by passing House Bill 851 (HB851), which would prohibit...

By Darrell Laurant, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va. Jul. 21--Like those whining cicadas that emerge every few summers to assault our eardums, the political ads are coming. Prepare yourself -- it's a presidential year. The vanguard has already crawled into our TV sets, in fact, and the onslaught is right around the corner. This year, as an added bonus, we'll get baloney in high-def. Jackson Browne, the pop artist who morphed into a dour political protest singer, once told us: "They...

By JIM KUHNHENN By Jim Kuhnhenn The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA For more than three decades, the National Governors Association has assembled on presidential election years as one of its members made a bid for the White House - a Carter or a Reagan, a Dukakis, a Clinton or a Bush. Not this time. With two senators as the presumed nominees of their respective parties, the governors have been consigned to the running-mate heap. There, along with others, they are being picked over for a...

By Jeff Franks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, who ran unsuccessfully for vice president in 1988, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, a family spokesman said. Bentsen's tall stature and southern drawl gave him a gentlemanly air, but the Texas Democrat is perhaps best known for his verbal ferocity in denouncing his 1988 Republican opponent, Sen. Dan Quayle, as "no Jack Kennedy." Bentsen had been in ill health since suffering two strokes in...