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• Cooper Tire Under Fire

  Joe Saunders | July 24, 2006 7:33 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  It's bad enough the company has been accused of manufacturing defective tires that have led to serious injury and fatalities. It's quite another when that same company uses deceptive practices to hide such information to protect itself from a lawsuit. According to an article published in the St. Petersburg TimesAt least 21 lawsuits involving 12 deaths have been filed against Cooper Tire in...

• New Boss (Hopefully) Not the Same as the Old Boss

  Joe Saunders | July 23, 2006 4:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  As the Diocese of Venice, which includes Sarasota, prepares to welcome a new bishop, we can only hope that this new prelate will deal with the scourge of sexual abuse more openly and honestly than his predecessor, Most. Rev. John Nevins. Nevins has a long history of transferring, covering up, and protecting abusive priests. In fact, in one notorious case, he set up the offending priest with...

• Cruise Ship Accident Brings Up Question of Seaworthiness

  Staff Writer | July 19, 2006 3:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Just two short weeks after our post about boating accidents being on the rise, a really, really, REALLY BIG boat (OK, a ship) was involved in an incident off of Florida's east coast yesterday. The Crown Princess cruise ship accident has been all over pretty much every news outlet since it nearly rolled over Tuesday. The fact that dozens of passengers were injued (some reports report as many as...

• FDA Asked to Improve Oversight of Drug Studies

  Joe Saunders | July 10, 2006 8:01 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a plea to the FDA to tighten its monitoring of promised studies by drug companies. According to a Wall St. Journal story, "The Food and Drug Administration doesn't know the status of many postapproval studies promised by drug makers and doesn't make tracking them a top priority, a report released Friday said.The inspector general at the...

• Boating Accidents in Florida on Rise

  Joe Saunders | July 05, 2006 8:15 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  This year has seen a 19% spike in boating accidents from last year which had been the highest in a decade. This has state officials worried and searching for answers to stem the tide. During the first six months this year, 38 people died in Florida boating accidents, compared to 32 through the first six months of 2005. In all, 80 people died in Florida boating mishaps last year. The increase...