State police won't let Make-A-Wish roll; Bars Mother's Day convoy on Rts. 222, 272
State police are threatening to put the kibosh on Make-A-Wish Foundation's popular Mother's Day convoy from Lancaster to Ephrata. Because construction on Route 222 has restricted traffic to a single lane in each direction from the Route 30 bypass to Oregon Road, state police have refused to permit

Publication: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA

Make-A-Wish truck convoy will go on - but where?; Construction on Rt. 222 forcing change in traditional Mother's Day fund-raiser. Negotiations between police and charity under way.
Smokey may have shut down the hammer lane. But reports of the Make-A-Wish Foundation truck convoy's demise are 10-10. Negatory. Flat-out jack-jawing. You 10-4 that, good buddy? More than 300 big rigs are still expected to hit town on Mother's Day, May 8, for the foundation's annual fund-raiser. But

Publication: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA

Toll of '97 floods may be lower than feared; Flood damage in Minnesota and North Dakota is still expected to hit $2 billion, and officials caution that the recovery money probably won't "make people whole.".(NEWS)
The floods of the century may turn out to be less expensive than Minnesotans and North Dakotans had feared. While a large amount of money continues to pour into ravaged communities along the Red and Minnesota rivers, the damage that it will be used to repair is slightly less than originally

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

Hits and misses; JCAHO loses money; JCR subsidiary makes a profit.(Joint Commission on Accredition of Healthcare Organizations, Joint Commission Resources)
Byline: John Morrissey Bedeviled by a revenue slide that won't quit, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations lost money on its core business of quality evaluation in 2003-the second straight year of net losses after a two-year run of eight-digit profits to start the new

Publication: Modern Healthcare

Ex-Sen. Hottinger's law license suspended 18 months; He has admitted misappropriating client funds to make mortgage payments and has repaid the money. "I made a serious mistake and I accept the consequences," he said.(NEWS)
Byline: Conrad deFiebre; Staff Writer Former Senate Majority Leader John Hottinger will be suspended from practicing law for at least 18 months as a penalty for misappropriating funds from a client account, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Hottinger, 61, a DFLer who represented the Mankato-St.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

GREEN GENERATES GREEN SONYA NEWENHOUSE MAKES MONEY BY HELPING BUSINESSES IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT.(BUSINESS)
Byline: Jason Stein Wisconsin State Journal Consultant Sonya Newenhouse owns two Madison businesses and most of a third -- but has no car. Newenhouse is one of the new breed of eco-entrepreneurs who have made a business out of helping consumers and companies do better for the environment. Her firm,

Publication: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)