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• Not stupid, just California

  Cheap-shot artists, elitists and deep thinkers have put a serious case of "whoop fanny" on California lately. The July 5 Sunday New York Times magazine, profiling "The Gavinator?!?!" (SF Mayor Gavin Newsom) and other would-be state leaders: "Going to Read More... Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:46 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: UC Merced, health care reform, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, New York Times, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Economist, Gavin Newsom

• Junk-food confessional

  Maybe it's because I caught some bug, or maybe because a couple of news items further down really bug me. But first, my junk-food confessional: As a young PR guy in New York, I once hawked vitamin-fortified potato chips. As an older PR guy in Milwaukee, Read More... Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 2:32 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, University of Manitoba

• Do NOT grow old in the Valley

  Ka-POW! "Senior citizens in California's Central Valley region have the worst health in the state and may provide a snapshot of the challenges California faces over the next two decades -- a time in which the elderly population is projected to double. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:53 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: AARP, Fresno, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, Wall Street bailout, Central Valley, Fresno's River Park, downtown

• Bubble, bubble, oil & trouble

  My neighborhood gas station is fattening up even as my favorite Mexican restaurant is thinning out the chicken in my quesadilla. I can now buy beer, beef jerky and a toy that too closely resembles an AK-47 at my cluttered Valero station, where the owner Read More... Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:46 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: obesity, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, diabetes, Valero, dialysis, bariatrics