Maine has the highest rate of childhood asthma in the country. The good news is that Maine is ahead of the pack cleaning up its school buses. They are a model for New England.

For 9 percent of adults to say they can't work, that's huge. This all says to me that we have a particular problem in the Northeast and that the numbers of people who are adversely affected on a day-to-day level and the way that is affecting our economy in terms of loss of productivity and health care costs is also huge.

Our forecast is what's a little bit farther out there. Smoked paprika is the hot news in the paprika world. The smoke adds a whole new dimension to the spice.

It's the best news we've had to give the country for some years now.

It's great news to us. We get a significant amount of requests for bed and breakfasts.

Unfortunately West Virginia has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country. We were looking for something that we could do for our kids and wanted to find something they would actually do.