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How to help children conquer fears

BY RACHEL NEWMARK

COMMENTARY 

Being a parent is often challenging. Managing emotions, logistics and every day life, while ensuring that your child feels loved, nurtured and secure, is difficult. However, in managing the adult’s every day challenges, we sometimes forget that being a child is hard too.

Children are faced with new experiences and challenges every day. Many of these experiences c...

Sick of being sick? How to boost your immune system

BY VICKY DeROSA

COMMENTARY

Since so many of us seem to suffer with colds and flu, I have decided to dedicate today and the next few days on how to stay well. Today will simply be tips and advice on how to boost your immune system. The next several days I will commit to sharing recipes with you that are sure to boost the immune systems of you and your family.

Some of the most important ways to keep ...

N.Y. Mets' Ike Davis gets valley fever treatment

BY DAVE RAGAZZO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

After missing almost the entire 2011 season, Mets fans were eager for Ike Davis to return to the lineup to give the team another bat besides David Wright.

But just like his injury last season, the 24-year-old first baseman has another mysterious ailment that could sideline him for a significant amount of time.

ESPN New York’s Adam Rubin has reported that the Mets ar...

What did Blockbuster movie rental do wrong?

BY WARREN BOROSON

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

BOROSON ON MONEY

I keep driving by Blockbuster stores that are going out of business.

And I keep wondering: Why didn’t the people who ran Blockbusters — very well paid, I presume, intelligent, experienced — start a mail-in-DVD service earlier than they did? And a streaming service the way Netflix did?

Why do the people who run businesses so often screw up so egre...

N.J. weather forecast: Below normal temperatures early in week

BY STEVEN DiMARTINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROM.COM

A series of disturbances will pass to the south of the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas over the next several days with only scattered cloud cover expected. Initially for today and tomorrow, temperatures will average below normal with lows in the mid 10's to mid 20's and highs in the upper 30's to upper 40's. The coldest temperatures will n...

Ex-NBA star Charles Barkley gets real about Michael Jordan and Charlotte Bobcats team

BY DAVE RAGAZZO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

It’s easy to say that Michael Jordan’s ownership stats are not as good as his playing stats, and a lot of people are noticing.

One of Jordan’s good friends and former player Charles Barkley expressed his opinion on the Charlotte Bobcats owner where he was pretty blunt about Jordan’s ownership track record, according to SI.com.

“I love Michael, but he just has not do...

GM Chevy Volt unplugged for low sales, despite high gas prices

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Gasoline prices are soaring, but the sales of electric cars are plummeting.

The Detroit Free Press reported that General Motors has temporarily laid off 1,300 employees for five weeks due to an idling in production of the Chevy Volt. The slowdown would take place from March 19 to April 23.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, GM projected sales of 10,000 Volts in ...

Chatham, N.J. CVS pill mix-up, Tamoxifen for flouride, should not harm children

BY WENDY EKUA QUANSAH

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

CVS stands for a Child Vitals Scare?

Well – after a mix-up consisting of the breast cancer fighting drug Tamoxifen instead chewable fluoride tablets, parents might just coin a new term for the second-largest chain of drugstores in the U.S. after Walgreen.

Between Dec. 20 and Feb. 20 at the CVS in Chatham, “about 50” children are likely to have received the w...

Radio host Rush Limbaugh regrets 'slut' comment...after Obama phones Sandra Fluke

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYJEWSROOM.COM

President Barack Obama called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke, who was insulted by radio host Rush Limbaugh on Friday, to express his support for her speaking out about her views on birth control.

Obama said Fluke’s parents should be proud of her, but Limbaugh felt differently.

"I'd be embarrassed," Limbaugh said, according to the Huffington Post. "I'd disconnect the ph...

NJRA and ArtPride present 'Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Visual & Culinary Arts'

BY MARGARET MORGAN

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

“Inspiring Women: A Celebration of Visual & Culinary Arts” will be presented on Monday, March 5 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. by The New Jersey Restaurant Association (NJRA) and the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation present at Hospitality House, NJRA Headquarters. The event, honoring Women’s History Month, is a collaboration that will include an exhibit of mixed me...