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Foles powers Eagles past Raiders for win
Oakland, CA – Michael Vick who? After setting a career-high with seven touchdowns, Nick Foles powered the Philadelphia Eagles past the Oakland Raiders for what looked like an easy 49-20 win. In the first half Foles was 14-for-16 for 256 yards that included two touchdowns to Riley Cooper who caught a 63-yard pass on one play for the touchdown.
“A couple of people came up to me and said that I tied the record with seven touchdowns,” Nick said. “It’s a great honor. Hats off to our guys for doing a great job.”
The Raiders were hoping to take advantage of Vick-less team but to their surprise the Eagles were even better without him. Backup quarterback Foles completed four touchdown passes in the first half giving Philly a 28-13 lead. Terrelle Pryor struggled moving the offense and Oakland’s defense looked completely lost for the first time in weeks.
“I really don’t know what to say. Just, really, hats off to them. They came out and they executed their game plan from the word ‘go’,” said Charles Woodson. “They drove the ball right down on us on our defense, continued to put up points throughout the whole game, and we didn’t have an answer for them.”
Nick went deep down field countless times connecting with receivers while the Raiders defense displayed a poor performance throughout the game. Foles tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes in one game. No other quarterback in the NFL has thrown seven touchdowns in one game since Peyton Manning did it opening night on September 5, 2013.
Oakland dug themselves in whole and could not climb out of it. They had one first-quarter drive stall in the red zone and had to settle for a field goal after Pryor found Rod Streater for a 63-yard pass that opened up the offense. Terrelle threw for 288 yards and ran for 94 but again recorded two interceptions and was sacked twice.
“It’s an embarrassing team loss,” Pryor said. “We just have to get better and we have to be better all-around offensively. I think the Eagles made some plays on offense and made some plays on defense a little bit but I think we pretty much stopped ourselves on offense. It was just on of those games.”
Unfortunately, the loss comes at a crucial time in the season when the Raiders still need to face division rivals, the Denver Broncos and the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs. This was a must win game against a team who also has struggled recently. Darren McFadden who has harbored injuries every year left the game with a hamstring injury and Terrelle also left with a knee injury.
“I’m doing alright, just kind of down about the game,” said McFadden. “I tweaked my hamstring a little bit at the end so I’m just trying to ride it right now, come in tomorrow and see what the trainers say.”
Head coach Dennis Allen said McFadden’s injury is “obviously” a major concern.
“You want your best guys out there and have your best guys healthy. I thought Rashad Jennings did a great job filling in when he went down,” he added.
Rookie D. J. Hayden was torched by Cooper on two plays early in the second quarter. Foles found Riley for a 17-yard completion and a 63-yard touchdown. But it wasn’t just Hayden who failed to force stops or turnovers. Oakland’s defense failed as a unit in shutting down Philly’s offense until the fourth quarter when they did not score at all. The Raiders scored their first touchdown late in the fourth when Jeremy Stewart rushed in the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown.
“They’re defense is definitely strong, especially #24 back there,” said Riley. “It was a good test for us and a good test for Nick, we came ready to play.”
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Oakland Post: Week of May 22 – 28, 2024
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Banning Menthol Cigarettes: California-Based Advocacy Group Joins Suit Against Federal Govt.
A California based non-governmental organization, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC), has joined two other public health advocacy groups in a second lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the agency’s inaction on issuing a final rule banning menthol cigarettes.
By Edward Henderson, California Black Media
A California based non-governmental organization, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC), has joined two other public health advocacy groups in a second lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the agency’s inaction on issuing a final rule banning menthol cigarettes.
The suit, filed by Christopher Leung of Leung Law, PLLC on behalf of the AATCLC, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and the National Medical Association (NMA) comes more than seven months after the FDA’s established date for finalizing a new rule against menthol cigarettes.
“We are a group of Californians, although we have expanded now. We were formed in 2008 to inform and direct the activities of commercial tobacco control and prevention as they affect African Americans and African immigrants in this country,” said Carol McGruder, co-chair of the AATCLC.
McGruder was speaking during a press briefing April 2 organized to announce the lawsuit. with representatives from the ASH, NMA and other organizations.
“Menthol cigarettes have had a devastating and disproportionate impact on the health of Black Americans,” said Yolanda Lawson, President of the NMA. “Smoking related diseases are the number one cause of death in the Black community.”
The lawsuit also follows the FDA’s 15-year delay in creating national policy that would ban cigarettes made with compound menthol, a minty substance that cigarette makers infuse into their tobacco products, making them more addictive and harmful.
Despite significant reductions in overall smoking rates in the US, smoking among poor, less educated and marginalized groups remains high. Every year, 45,000 Black Americans prematurely die from tobacco-caused diseases. An estimated 85% of them smoked menthol cigarettes.
“This disproportionate use of menthol cigarettes among Black Americans is not a coincidence,” Dr. Yerger continued. “I was one of the first tobacco documents researchers out of UCSF who exposed the tobacco industry’s systematic, predatory marketing schemes to dump highly concentrated menthol cigarette marketing into urban inner-city areas.”
In 2011, the FDA’s own scientific advisory committee concluded that the “Removal of menthol cigarettes from the marketplace would benefit public health in the United States.”
If the sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes is indeed banned, the FDA projects a 15.1% drop in smoking within 40 years, which would help save between 324,000 to 654,000 lives.
As a result of the Plaintiffs’ first lawsuit, the FDA made the landmark determination to add menthol to the list of banned characterizing flavors in cigarettes.
On the contrary, tobacco-aligned groups in the past have argued that banning menthol cigarettes would be impact federal and state budgets with the loss of nearly $6.6 billion in cigarette sales taxes. Menthol cigarettes account for over one-third of the U.S. cigarette market.
Other arguments from tobacco-backed groups include unintended consequences of a ban such as increased policing in Black and Brown communities due to contraband cigarettes. However, health advocates have dismissed this claim stating the ban would apply to companies that make or sell menthol cigarettes, not individual smokers.
By law, the United States has two months to respond to the lawsuit. The feds can respond to it or file a motion to dismiss.
If the suit is successful, the FDA would have 90 days to make a final ruling.
Alameda County
District Attorney Pamela Price Will Face Recall Election on November General Election Ballot
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors scheduled the recall election against Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price for November 5, coinciding with the 2024 General Election. The decision comes after weeks of controversy and drawn-out discussions amongst county officials, recall proponents, and opponents, and legal advisors.
By Magaly Muñoz
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors scheduled the recall election against Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price for November 5, coinciding with the 2024 General Election.
The decision comes after weeks of controversy and drawn-out discussions amongst county officials, recall proponents, and opponents, and legal advisors.
Recall proponents submitted 123,374 signatures before the March 5 deadline, which resulted in 74,757 valid signatures counted by the Registrar of Voters (ROV).
The recall election will cost Alameda County $4 million and will require them to hire hundreds of new election workers to manage the demand of keeping up with the federal, state and local elections and measures.
Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE), one of the two recall campaigns against Price, held a press conference minutes before the Board’s special meeting asking for the Supervisors to schedule the election in August instead of consolidating with the November election.
Supporters of the recall have said they were not concerned with the $20 million price tag the special election would’ve cost the county if they had put it on the ballot in the summer. Many have stated that the lives of their loved ones are worth more than that number.
“What is the cost of a life?” recall supporters have asked time and time again.
Opponents of the recall election have been vehemently against a special date to vote, stating it would cost taxpayers too much money that could be reinvested into social programs to help struggling residents.
A special election could’ve cost the county’s budget to exceed its current deficit of $68 million, which was a driving factor in the three supervisors who voted for a consolidated election.
“Bottom line is, I can’t in good conscience support a special election that is going to cost the county $20 million,” Board President Nate Miley said.
Many speakers asked Miley and Keith Carson to recuse themselves from the vote, claiming that they have had improper involvement with either the recall proponents or Price herself.
Both supervisors addressed the concerns stating that regardless of who they associate themselves with or what their political beliefs are, they have to do their jobs, no matter the outcome.
Carson noted that although he’s neither supporting nor opposing Price as district attorney, he believes that whoever is elected next to take that position should have a reasonable amount of time to adjust to the job before recalls are considered.
Reports of recall attempts started as soon as April 2023 when Price had only been in office three months.
Price and her campaign team Protect the Win have been adamant that the voters who elected her to office will not fall for the “undemocratic” practices from the recall campaign and they are prepared to put all efforts forward to guarantee she stays in office.
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