To fight the money laundering schemes by organized crime, the Secretariat of Finance Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, presented some measures that will limit the amount of dollars in cash within the Mexican banking system. Now people won’t be able to purchase in cash homes or cars which are worth thousands of dollars, without demonstrating where the money is coming from.

The National Institute of Public Health said that in Mexico five million smokers of the almost 11 million who are addicted to tobacco will die (8.1 million men and 2.8 million women), because they will develop diseases like heart attacks, cancer, cardiovascular accidents and hypertension.

Wow! ... people are really taking advantage of the beautiful weather these days.

While covering the story about the students at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake celebrating a Quinceañera in their class, I must say that I was transported back to the days when my girlfriends and I dreamed about our “Quince” party.