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By Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News
Like a "spare tire" of unwanted belly fat, the rate of adult obesity in Maine continues to expand. According to the 2009 report "F as in Fat," released Wednesday by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health, 24.7 percent of Maine adults are clinically obese compared with 23.7 percent in last year's report.
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By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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N.H. among states hit by E. coli in beef
By The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press
WASHINGTON — At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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