eyeglasses News Archive

25-Jan-2009

 

  • Seat belts, smoking, voting, school reforms up this week in N.D. Legislature (Grand Forks Herald)
    BISMARCK - Some of the biggest ideas coming before the Legislature this year get their hearings this week, starting right away Monday morning. Also coming up later in the week are proposed tougher seat belt enforcement, more restrictive smoking bans, college tuition freeze and a bill that makes it a crime for a renter to install a satellite dish without permission.


  • A Hard Road Behind, a New Road Ahead (New York Times)
    During tough economic times when work is scarce and applicants many, ex-offenders have a particularly hard time finding a job.


  • Seeing Straight Without Breaking the Bank (New York Times)
    A month?s rent just for eyeglasses? Taking care of your eyesight doesn?t have to cost so much.


  • Perlmutters honored in Twinsburg (Cleveland Jewish News)
    Mary and Dr. Donald Perlmutter, owners of Twinsburg Eye Associates, were selected as the 2008 Twinsburg Chamber of Commerce Business Persons of the Year. Last May, Don traveled to Nicaragua for eight days with Volunteers in Optometric Services to Humanity, where he provided 1,000 sets of donated eyeglasses and other eye care for the needy.


  • Seniors, those with disabilities pay close attention to State Legislature (Saint George Spectrum)
    ST. GEORGE - The specter of budget cuts looms heavily heading into Monday's opening of Utah's 2009 Legislative session, but for Southern Utah's large population of seniors and people with disabilities, the cutbacks seem especially ominous.


  • Self-Adjusting Eyeglasses For The Poor (NPR)
    NPR's Scott Simon speaks with retired Oxford University professor Joshua Silver, who has developed inexpensive self-adjusting eyeglasses for use in underdeveloped countries.


  • How high-deductible health policies work (The News & Observer)
    Q: After being let go from a large corporation in the area, I've started my own business. I'm pretty sure it will make money, and the plan is to have my wife and me as the only employees.


  • Short shrift for ecology in Russia (Baltimore Sun)
    Renowned Russian ecological crusader Marina Rikhvanova has grown used to a certain amount of ambient harassment: intelligence agents rifling through her files, bank accounts abruptly blocked, the phone she believes is bugged. It comes with the territory.


  • Seeing Straight Without Breaking the Bank (The Gainesville Sun)
    A months rent just for eyeglasses? Taking care of your eyesight doesnt have to cost so much.


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