i wish you luck
and i know you`ll do a good job.
and you`ll be miss on today morining show.

Sleeplessness is becoming the "Next Big Thing." Some time durinng the early to mind 90's I was envolved with a beautiful young women who was an expert in the field of Sleep Disorders.

She would fly across the country and run seminars regarding the medical equiptment that her compay sold the would correct sleep proplems. But since one day she would be in Pittsburgh then L.A. the nexted. She was prescribed Ambiem. Like any wonderfullly loving 100% trustig girl friend she would share her Ambien. I only used it three times, and that was 7 years ago. I remember her telling me to take one tablet once I was settled in bed under the covers. I'm thinkin ya right how is thhis thing gonna knock me out. Well geust what I barely mad in to my bed and the second time I fell asleep in my livingroom with my hand in a bag of Doritiios. Unfortunetly lets call her S and My self(Jimmy Ray) couldn't countinue the magic and in 3 months things werer over. But I guese my piont is Ambien could be taking the place of Oxycotin. Ambiem can be fought, when I say fought I mean from the user/addict, but this medicane always winners, it K.O.'s everyboby.

Tonight it was mentioned that if we knew someone who was making a difference, that we should come to this web site. This is the only way that I can see to contact you.
16 Pattie Cook years ago was a cancer survivor. Because of that, Patti was having trouble getting the heart transplant that she desperately needed. She persisted until the Dr. in charge relented, and she got that transplant.
Today, she is President of the New Heart Society, is a member of the Arizona Coalition for Transplantation Board of Directors, volunteers for the Donor Network of Arizona and works at her church. This 66 year old widow is like the Energizer Bunny helping others! She never complains about the hours that all of this takes.
As a recipient of Patti's help and friendship after my own heart transplant, I know her value in our community and would hope that she gets the recognition that she so richly deserves.

Leo Corbet

You're a great fill-in, Mr. Holt. I am a broadcast journalism student (transferring from a community college to the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College) and we just recently studied an old Chicago news tape...to our surprise, we saw you - mustache and all!

At 42 years old, I often find myself worrying that my generation is the last generation that will have a clear memory and understanding of what was so appealing about our country to make millions of immigrants dream of and take great risks to come to the United States.

For over a decade now senior citizens have often made evening news segments exposing the perils of living on fixed incomes, facing the choices of medications or groceries.

It is those stories I remember while filling my gas tank. Standing at the pump, I watch the numbers climb and feel my shoulders droop. As the dollars continue to escalate, I start thinking of what budget concessions I can make to compensate. I'll pass on the bottle of water or the cup of coffee that I usually purchase after a fill up.

I'll pass on fresh produce, replacing it with frozen on sale vegetables. And forget dinner out or just going for a weekend drive through the country.

We live in rural Pennsylvania, fifteen miles from town. My nineteen year old son is a full time college student, living at home and juggling school with a full time job at a fast food restaurant. He earns $5.15 an hour. His vehicle (our pick up) averages seventeen miles per gallon. Price at the pump today is $2.85 a gallon.

A little more than his first hour of work is spent earning what it costs for him to drive to and from work. How is a young person supposed to save for school,a home or bare the price of starting a family on the wages of an entry level job when so much of the earnings are being consumed by energy costs?

The President says he understands that we are suffering, but I don't think he truly understands the scope of our suffering.

In our area, most of the middle class have been dangling by a thread by rope for some time as we are witness to down sizing, out sourcing and business or plant closings. I worry how much more we can shoulder.

As the dominoe effect of rising energy expenses ripples through the economy, leaving unemployment and too expensive consumer goods in its wake, I am so sad that my children will not have the pleasure of taking for granted all of the vastly wonderful privileges we have known in this country.

I've never felt compelled to write to you before, although I always enjoy your broadcast. I spent over half an hour this evening looking for a way to share my thoughts.

Thank you for providing this forum.

Sincerely,
Lynn

My daughter is teaching in Inner City School as part of Teach for America. Priya is a graduate of University of Michigan. She majored in Industrial & Operational Engineering. She wanted to make a difference and help minimize education enquity. She ended up defering our admission to a Medical Group so that she can help educate high school students in a charter school in Washington, DC. Her story would be a good one for the Nightly Evening News as part of making the difference.

Gas prices.

I know that state taxes make up for some of the differences in the price of gas across the country but why is/was there a difference of around $1.25 a gallon in California or New York and parts of the Southeast states or up in the Northern states?

If supplies are tight in the states where they refine the crude why is the price less at the pump in states hundreds or thousands of miles away from the refineries?

It can't be all state taxes.

Lester why should we be shocked to see kids killing kids. Look at what has happen to our leadership in this country. Our government is runned by lies, crooks, liars and murders. We tell our children to tell the truth what they see is Bush/Cheney/Rove lie and nothing is done as a CIA leaks information that shows Bush lied and that person gets fired. Look for more insanity to come as the example we are showing our kids are the worse we could ever think.