Year 2000 Promises

In the wake of the Earth Summit in 1992, it was anticipated
that by the year 2000 we would be a lot closer to solving many of our
environmental problems. But as the millennium approaches, Great
Lakes Radio Consortium commentator Suzanne Elton has realized that we
aren’t any closer to solutions than we were ten years ago:

Are Today’s Kids Less Active?

The U-S Surgeon General recently declared childhood obesity as aproblem of epidemic proportion in this country. Over the last 30 years,children have been getting heavier, relative to their height. Today,one in five children is at least 20 percent above an optimal weight.The problem may not be so much what kids are eating … as it is what theyare doing. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Joan Siefert-Rose hasthis report:

Winter Storm Survival

The blizzard that crippled the Great Lakes Region is behind us. But after
bringing the area to a standstill for several days, Great Lakes Radio
Consortium commentator, Suzanne Elston, wonders how previous generations
ever managed to survive: