The Hampton City Council approved a motion that would ban smoking in all city-owned public parks in the Hampton city limits. The motion was passed in its second reading at the council’s meeting on Tuesday with a 4-1 vote. Mary Ann Mitcham was the sole vote against the ordinance. Read the full article: Henry Herald
Betting on Reno (Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles on the Athens uninsured initiative, produced by graduate students in the Health and Medical Journalism Program at the University of Georgia.) Last fall, members of the Athens Health Network invited the founders of an unusual alternative to conventional health insurance to…