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Weekend’s most popular stories: Aug. 26-28, 2011

Here are the 10 most-viewed stories and pages from the weekend of Aug. 26-28, 2011:

  1. Convicted murderer beaten in County Jail suffers serious injuries
  2. Santa Cruz attorney faces burglary, drug charges
  3. Bonny Doon native Ryan Leeder fell 2,500 feet from Half Dome in 17th death at Yosemite
  4. One person assaulted in possible racially motivated attack in Capitola
  5. Events calendar: events.santacruzsentinel.com/search
  6. Scotts Valley television repair shop owner arrested after child porn found in store
  7. Parents grapple with decision to vaccinate children
  8. Pooches on Pacific: Thursday marks a first in 35 years
  9. Santa Cruz Sentinel Photo Contest : 2011 In the Aloha Spirit
  10. Sew Sew Maria, called an artistic genius by her clients, dead at 77

Link of the Day:

No. 7 on the weekend list is the special report regarding vaccinations in Santa Cruz County by the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting. See their site for a look at the kinds of reporting and the community impact good investigative reporting can have in the confusing world of California health care. The foundation is among new forms of investigative journalism combining nonprofit status, online tools, investigative reporting (like California Watch and Pro-Publica) and partnerships with a wide variety of community publications.

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  • Anonymous

    There are some 250 comments on the first vaccine story. A few people have dozens by themselves. Yet a comment I posted to respond to comments directed at me show up and then disappear. And when I reposted it, the same thing happened. Unlike many comments, mine are neither inflammatory nor attack others personally. Facebook often prevents me from posting even though it shows me as logged in with Yahoo, insisting I log it at Facebook. Facebook commenting isn’t about a more civil dialogue, it’s about censorship.

  • http://www.santacruzsentinel.com Tom Moore

    Sorry ssdisabuser – comments have been approved that I saw. Nothing to do with Yahoo login, but a couple of banned words embedded in your comments. This will occasionally happen to commenters with a good vocabulary. Facebook doesn’t approve comments with the phrase: “Giants hit” because of the final four letters. You had a couple with inadvertent combinations.

  • Anonymous

    Tom, here’s the post that disappeared twice:nnn”@Starr- Unless you believe vaccinationsndon’t help prevent diseases caused by the organisms they arenpatterned or derived from, the reduction of the occurrence of thosendiseases in vaccinated children helps keep the kids not vaccinatednfor those diseases from being exposed and suffering from thosendiseases. Vaccinations stimulate immune responses creating antibodiesnthat help the ability of the body to more effectively fight offndisease that’s like the vaccine. What some experts are saying is thenlack of exposure to a variety of germs by living in anti-septicnenvironments might discourage the development strong immune systemnand might lead to greater susceptibility to allergies. nnnnnnAs far as the dangers fromnvaccinations, they exist. But like so much of life, we don’t not donthings because there is some danger. Instead we hopefully make anclear-headed cost-benefit analysis to compare the risks incurred tonthe benefits received. Here’s a recent National Academy Study on thensubject that analysis the causality connection between variousnvaccines and possible adverse effects. nnnnnn”Adverse Effects of Vaccines:nEvidence and Causality” nnnhttp://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13164nnnnn@Mary Paulis- Do public healthnofficials recommend these vaccinations for adults or are you justnbeing argumentative?”nnCan you see anything in it that would cause it to be flagged? nu00a0n