Ten top POSITIVE news stories you might have missed these last few weeks

With the world's attention focused on the major ongoing stories of the Crimea special vote to rejoin Russia and the mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian Flight 370,  you might have missed some of these other POSITIVE stories in the news.

1. CVS STORES WITH OVER 7,600 CVS/CAREMARK OUTLETS WILL STOP SELLING CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN ALL ITS STORES AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2014. It is estimated that CVS will lose close to $2 billion in annual sales. This must have been a difficult decision; however, with over 800 Minute-Clinics in these store and its great majority of business coming from promoting health wellness and clean living, this was the right decision.
     Perhaps, the Rhode Island based company can do more in the way of promoting online as well as live seminars on prevention and other  health related issues such as the importance of colon cancer screening that I will cover shortly. So, stay tuned!

2. HATS OFF TO DANIEL P. MALLOY  of Connecticut for PROPOSING THE SALE OF E-CIGS TO MINORS BE BANNED.  This device involves heating  a flavored nicotine liquid to produce a vapor that is like smoke.Though touted as a means of beating the  nicotine habit, these devices make smoking more attractive to the underage because mainly because  celebrities are seen with the devices.

3. COLON CANCER IN OUR COUNTRY IS DOWN 30% IN THE LAST DECADE.  This is despite that only 50% of those who should be screened are in fact going for the test. So wake up America and those adults who are 50 years of age and up, go visit your local primary care doctor.

Mae Keane

Hartford Courant 

 4. CLICK  HERE TO READ A STORY CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF A CONNECTICUT LADY WHO BEAT RADIATION POISONING, THEN CONQUERED COLON CANCER AND FINALLY BREAST CANCER. BY THE WAY, SHE JUST PASSED ON AT AGE 107!

5. KUDOS TO THE CITY OF STAMFORD AND MAYOR MARTIN FOR "POT HOLE WEEK"  whereby the public is invited to contact the city to report potholes that needed filling. Streets such as Upland Avenue in Belltown have been repaved to cover the numerous and dangerous pot holes.

6. A TINY PUBLISHER IS BRINGING NEWSWEEK BACK INTO PRINT. Click here for the story.

7. FORBES MAGAZINE, ONCE THE VERY SYMBOL OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM (CAPITALIST TOOL) AND LAVISH CORPORATE CONSUMPTION IS ON  THE BUYER'S BLOCK. Click here to read.   Malcolm Forbes rode motorcycles and entertained the capitalist elite on his yacht as he courted Elizabeth Taylor. Son Steve spent $140 million on two failed presidential bids. Malcolm had a fabulous collection of military art depicting in miniature famous world battles, which he opened for public viewing at his company building on Fifth Ave. just south of 14th Street.


8. AMERICA FACES UP TO ITS FAILING EDUCATION SYSTEM AS THE DEBATE HEATS UP BETWEEN FUNDING FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS (favored by Governor Cuomo of New York) AND FUNDING FOR PRE-K EDUCATION (favored by New York City's Mayor di Blasio).

9. A BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL PRESENTS ITS CASE TO OPEN AN ELEMENTARY BRANCH HERE IN STAMFORD CAUSING CONTROVERSY.To access the many articles recently published in the Stamford Advocate, click here. 

10. METRO NORTH FINALLY FACES UP TO ITS FAILED INFRASTRUCTURE. IS HOPE ON ITS WAY?  Click here for story..