ASCOG Advocate: September 12, 2013

Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright.

On this date, in 1959, Bonanza premiered as the first regularly scheduled television program presented in color.  It would go on to be the second-longest running western (behind Gunsmoke).  The central figures of the show were the Cartwright family who lived on a fictional ranch in the Utah Territory.

What was the name of the ranch?

California: State elder abuse investigators are opening and closing cases without leaving their desks.

Stem cell treatments on rise as science tries to catch up.

Honor flight takes 80 Oklahoma WWII veterans to Washington, D.C.

Aging population is slowing economic growth.

Sixty-one-year-old educator sentenced in neglect death of her father.

IBM drops benefits to retirees on Medicare.

Health providers advocate long term care support for cancer survivors.