| CRIME: Operation Impact to again hit streets of Niagara Falls
The last thing Joseph Perry expected to see as he stepped from a 19th Street crack house was the cops.Yet there they were. Falls Police Field Intelligence Officer Karl Brusino, along with a Niagara County probation officer and some New York State Police troopers nearby. Perry, already on probation, began to quickly head in the other direction.The cops told him to stop, but instead Perry popped whatever he had bought into his mouth and swallowed hard. Police believe Perry's snack was a quantity of crack.Now Perry faces charges of first-degree loitering and tampering with physical evidence, while Cataract City neighborhoods are getting a return visit from Operation Impact.Once confined, in its first two years of funding, to just the summer months, the latest installment of what cops simply call "Impact" has been ongoing since July."It never stopped," Falls Police Superintendent John Chella said.
Optometry Backs New Bill Before Congress to Make Children's Vision ...
WASHINGTON, April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congress will have the opportunity to consider legislation supported by the nation's frontline providers of eye and vision care aimed at making it a national priority to combat undiagnosed and untreated vision problems in school-aged children. "The Vision Care for Kids Act of 2007," S. 1175, supported by the American Optometric Association (AOA), was introduced Monday by U.S. Sens. Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-Mo.) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT), leaders in Congress on education and health issues. "Good vision is critical to learning. This important legislation .
No gas tax hikes without major spending reforms
John Taylor, a professor at Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business, notes that there are 533 road agencies in Michigan. Some of them, he adds, receive less than $100,000 from the state Transportation Fund. This is not a smart way to concentrate existing road tax dollars where they can be most effective. Taylor, who specializes in logistics, suggests that state, county and local officials get together and designate the roads most critical to business and economic development. Road condition and their economic impact ought to play a role as well as pure population and geography in the allocation of tax dollars, he suggests. Like the advocates pressing for higher gasoline taxes and greater auto registration fees in Lansing, Taylor would like to see more road money.
Austin attorney honored by St. Mary's; Surgeon lauded by ...
St. Mary's Law Alumni Association recently honored Austin attorney Karin Crump, a civil litigator and mediator in the Austin office of Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, with the Distinguished Young Alumnus award. The award honors a St. Mary's alumnus or alumna who has graduated within the past 10 years and has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the legal profession and service to the community. Crump graduated from St. Mary's University in San Antonio in 1997 and is president of the Texas Young Lawyers Association. Group elects board of directors The Bangladesh Association of Greater Austin, the official representative body for the Bangladeshi community in Austin, recently elected its first board of directors.
Researcher bags ophthalmology award
Madurai, March. 28 (PTI): A 25-year-old researcher of Dr G Venkataswamy Eye Research Institute here has won "Outstanding Young Investigator Award in Basic Sciences", instituted by Singapore-based Asia-Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology(ARVO). Murugeshwari's study on 'Diabetic Retinopathy and Eales', presented at the ARVO's four-day conference at Singapore from March 2, for the first time exhibited the presence of high levels of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor(VEGF) in patients affected by Eales, a release from the institute said here today. "Among those affected by diabetics, it has been found that higher glucose levels led to a concomitant rise in VEGF levels that in turn induced new blood vessel formation within the eyes. This led to DR, a disease that affected eye sight.
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