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May 11, 2008

Discuss Sunday's local commentary

All is not well for U.S. moms
By Rhonda Arthur
Arthur, of Floyd, is a certified nurse midwife, a women's health nurse practitioner and a family nurse practitioner. She works as a family nurse practitioner and teaches by distance learning for the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Kentucky.

I am saddened by the realization that even though the United States spends more money and routinely practices intensive medical management of childbirth, we continue to rank near the bottom of industrialized countries in infant and maternal mortality rates, and are experiencing rising preterm births. With all the money we spend and intensive medical management, there is a big problem with our outcomes. Why do we have such dismal statistics? Statistics in this case are in fact the lives and well- being of women and infants.
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Strong candidate to emerge from long campaign
By Bill Larson
Larson is a senior politics major at Washington and Lee University from Wilmington, Del. He was the advisory board liaison for W&L's 2008 Democratic Mock Convention.

The negative campaigning is tearing the party apart! Hillary is tearing the party apart! Hillary must go! Really? Is what you hear over and over on cable news true? The current competition for the nomination actually gives Democrats a real and better chance at bringing an enlightened statesman or stateswoman to the helm and taking back the White House.
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# 1

[May 11, 2008 11:08 AM]

Ed S.

Re: Larson's commentary..

This is something I've been saying for a while. Why all the talk about Hillary dropping out, when her continued presence gives free media attention to the Democrats only?

I do not agree, however, that "[t]he longer process we are witnessing in the Democratic Party allows the American people to learn about the candidates and their qualifications."

I haven't learned anything useful about either candidate's stance, just the latest crack on their competitor.

# 2

[May 11, 2008 3:16 PM]

Gary

Good letter W.D. Clarkson I remember the veterans taking special courses on their GI bill at our school down in GA in the late 1940s, and yes we are lucky we have Jim Webb as a Senator. Thanks Blanch Hamden for telling it like it is - the "Decider" has added more gridlock, but what else is he good at?

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