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SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE NEWS BUDGET

Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 15:00

Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Wednesday, October 22, 2008. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives visit our Web site at www.shns.com.PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUES(Editors: This is the first of a two-day package of stories examining the candidates' stands on major issues.)ISSUE-POCKETBOOK (Collins, SHNS) -- It's not God, guns or gays that tops the agenda of many American voters as the economy staggers towards a recession. It's money, financial security and jobs that matter most. 1,000.ISSUE-ENERGY (Collins, SHNS) -- When it comes to energy and the environment, there's a lot for activists on both sides of the debate to like and to loathe about the proposals offered by presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. 1,000.ISSUE-HEALTHCARE (Sullivan, SHNS) -- Health care reform, the issue that many say defined the 1992 choice between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is back at center stage again this year, and the candidates have sharply divergent plans for it. 1,000.ISSUE-IMMIGRATION (Collins, SHNS) -- When it comes to immigration reform -- a topic so volatile that, not long ago, it touched off massive street protests across the country -- there's not a lot of difference in the positions staked out by presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. 1,000.ISSUE-EDUCATION (Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Here's the biggest difference between the education plans of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama: $18 billion. 850.POLITICSSUPREMECOURT (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle) -- A look at what's at stake in the Supreme Court and how the new president's choices might affect upcoming decisions. 850.NATIONALRHODEISLAND (Arditi, Providence Journal) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I.: Rhode Island surges to the national lead with an 8.8 percent unemployment rate. How bad is it? 5,000 people recently applied for 55 openings at hotel being built. 790.GOOD NEWSPROSTHETICSART (Pritchett, SHNS) -- PORT ORCHARD, Wash.: Dan Horkey is in the business of tattooing legs - the prosthetic kind. 600. With photo: SH08J186PROSTHETICSARTHEALTH AND SCIENCEMEDICAL (Bowman, SHNS) -- The Medical Journal. Hard times are forcing nearly half of Americans to skimp on some aspect of health care, one survey finds. But can a recession also demonstrate what we can live without? 700.SUSHIGUIDE (Macias, Sacramento Bee) -- Sushi guide targets overfarmed, contaminated fish. 700. (Also appears on Life sked)INTERNATIONALFRANCE-ROBINHOOD (Sachs, Toronto Globe and Mail) -- PARIS: At a time when some politicians here are calling for lower taxes and a growing number of working families are sliding into poverty, a French Robin Hood has appeared on the scene. 750.IN THE WESTCAL-PROP8 (Garza, Sacramento Bee) -- Fate of 11,000 same-sex marriages uncertain if California's Prop. 8 passes. 800.CAL-CRIMESPIKE (Wilson, SHNS) -- Arrests for drug and property crimes have grown in the wake of Proposition 36, a sweeping program California voters approved to send nonviolent drug offenders into treatment instead of jail. 650.