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05/13/08 Vaccination time

Making sure your horses are vaccinated each spring seems pretty straightforward, but there are some important factors to consider. I’m Jeff Keane and I will be back after the break with some guidelines. The Equine Practitioners Infectious Disease Committee just released an on- line guide for vaccinating horses. Here is Susan Allen with some of their recommendations. Horses, like people, are on the move today thus it is critical their shot record is current especially in light of the imp...

05/12/08 Credit Card Regulations

Me thinks they doth protest too much. In other words, the one squealing the loudest usually has the most to lose. The Federal Reserve’s proposal to regulate the nation’s credit card industry has been met with nothing less than scorn and resentment by the banking industry stating that the ones who would be hurt the most by the proposed regulations would be consumers themselves. Yeah, right. But it was worth a try, it sounded sincere. Well, almost. The new rules would create a baseline for fairn...