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April 12, 2005
Coming to a newspaper near you
This is the combined morning and afternoon news budget meeting report, because ... I missed the morning news meeting, because ... I was in another non-news-budget meeting, because ...
It was a day like that. You get the picture.
For Page One tomorrow, we will be reporting:
The FDA vote today on whether to continue the partial ban on silicone-gel breast implants.
The hearing today in Sacramento on legislation that would legalize physician-assisted suicide in California.
The bill proposed by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley of Agoura Hills that would jack up the fees on cigarettes by 10 to 20 cents a pack to fund costs to clean up stormwater ocean drainage in California. The tie-in to cigarettes is that the trash most often found on California beaches, swept there off our streets during storms, is a cigarette butt. The tobacco companies are opposed.
The filing of charges against three men in Britain suspected of being involved in a terrorist plot against financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington.
And a story that I'm not supposed to talk about because it's embargoed. An embargo is an agreement that someone who has news makes with the media where they'll give us information, but we have to agree not to release it until a certain date and time. That gives us a chance to prepare the story. It gives them the advantage of controlling the release of the information. The embargoed information is regarding the Santa Clara River. It's embargoed by the American Rivers environmental group. This is the same group that annually releases a list of the Most Endangered Rivers in the United States.


