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• Do You Live in America's Best Place to Raise a Family?

  If you live in Hamilton County, Ind., then the answer to that question is yes, at least according to Forbes Magazine. Forbes recently released its list of the best places to raise a family, another of those classic magazine rankings destined to either make you angry (how could my alma mater not be on the U.S. News list of best colleges?) or unjustifiably proud (my high school made the Newsweek list!).  As you look at the various counties that landed in the Forbes top 20 -- including Marin County, Calif., Howard County, Md., and Johnson County, Kan. -- you might wonder how, exactly, the magazine's editors decided which places deserved such high marks. Read More... Posted Jul 07 2008, 10:33 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: america, indiana, forbes, best places to raise a family, Hamilton County, quality of life

• Fear of plastic + timing = big bucks

  Interesting article over on Forbes.com about the BornFree people. Turns out they not only make the bottles, they help make sure that people know how dangerous the BPA-filled versions are. Apparently, when BornFree began back in 2006, very few people cared about BPA. So what does a dadpreneur (that's a dad entepreneur – see how dumb it sounds?) do? Make sure that everyone knows how bad plastic is. According to Forbes, BornFree's President Ron Vigdor "sometimes exaggerates when comparing bisphenol A-free bottles to polycarbonate versions. 'One is with arsenic, one without. Which one would you like to buy?'" So what's wrong with that? Read More... Posted Jun 08 2008, 10:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, health, baby, mother, business, babies, mothers, mompreneurs, infants, nursing, breast milk, breast feeding, bottles, formula, BPA, Bisphenol-A, plastic, feeding, milk, Brett Singer, Bisphenol free, Bisphenol-A free, born free, Bisphenol, forbes, entepreneurs, bornfree, bpa free