Suprise Bleacher Strike Angers Local City Officials, Sports Fans
2007-04-14 23:34:00
AKELEY, Minnesota (MNN) -- In a suprise move late last night the North Central Minnesota Bleachers Union voted unanimously to approve a strike citing lack of pay, poor working conditions, and the city offering no health benefits to it’s some 150 members as it’s main complaints.“It’s about time we approved this strike,” Avery McGuire, President of the Bleachers Union said, “the members of this union have worked far too hard and far too long to continue receiving this kind of shabby treatment. They receive no pay, no benefits, and the conditions are just awful. How would you like to like to spend your days having to bear the burden of people climbing up and down you and sticking their butts in your face all the while not collecting a paycheck? Our demands are simple and yet the city will not listen to us.”The union is asking the city for $12.00 an hour for back pay and $15.00 per hour worked under the proposed contract. They also are angling for full medical and dental ins
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Feline Drug Addiction on the Rise.
2007-04-11 04:46:00
GARY, Indiana (SNS) -- A powerful new feline drug has been flooding the streets of Gary, Indiana in the past few months, with certain parts of the city seeing addiction rates of up to 75%.Catnip has been known to cause high levels of euphoria and relaxation in common house cats for centuries and is considered an acceptable narcotic for cats. Within the past couple years opportunistic drug cartels have been extracting the active ingredient, nepetalactone, and mixing it with methamphetamines, a highly addictive and dangerous psycho stimulant. The concoction is known by its street name "catcain" and is usually snorted. "I've been addicted to catcain for 2 years now," Bailey said as he pawed at an old beat up ball of yarn. "A couple friends of mine got the drug a couple years ago and told me it was the greatest thing they’ve ever had. It was supposed to be non-addictive, a 'party enhancer', no one ever told me it was full of meth! My life is ruined, I was run out of my house with a
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Tree Suicides up 27% over 2005.
2007-04-10 09:31:00
FOREST CITY, North Carolina(AP) -- The latest tree suicide figures released by the federal government have shown a dramatic rise over last year. The governments report, released April 8th, 2007, shows that there were 30,254 confirmed cases of tree suicide for the year 2006, up from 23,822 in 2005.Lawmakers are currently speculating as to why there was such a dramatic increase. "Right now we have no definitive answer as to why our nations trees are deciding to end their lives on such a massive scale." Rep. Aston (D-NH) said, adding "but we must find the reason before we lose any more of these troubled giants." On top of Washington's speculation list are climate change, increased logging, as well as a national spruce beetle epidemic.Janine Anderson, President of the Tree Advocacy Group of North Carolina, had this to offer "This is an absolute outrage. Our government has been turning a blind eye to this growing problem for decades. We have lobbied the government to fund a National Tree
New Study Lauds the Health Benefits of Pond Scum
2007-04-16 01:57:00
COLFAX, Washington (WNB) -- A new study recently published by the National Science Union of Health
Conscience Researchers (NSUHCR) is purported to have shown numerous positive health effects of the pond scum. The study, which was started nearly 6 years ago and completed a month ago reportedly shows a link between scum ingestion and cancer remission, lower instances of heart disease, and increased immune systems.“These are really groundbreaking findings,” said Dr. Adam Clover, the head of research for the NSUHCR. “This has the potential to help treat or cure every major disease plaguing the world, it’s really fantastic. More research is need for us to figure out exactly why our bodies react so strongly to pond scum but the hypothesis around the lab is the body loves the high ion content.”The study is not without its skeptic though. “I would highly suggest that nobody goes out and starts lapping at the brown foam floating in their neighborhood lakes,” FDA researcher Dr. Pau
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