Sidewalks, a streetscape in your community or repaving of nearby streets.  This is a small sample from a comprehensive list of transportation planned projects that our citizens would like to see in their community.  The question remains.  How do we fund them? This summer voters within the ten-county Atlanta metropolitan area will decide whether to fund local and regional transportation projects (from an existing list of projects developed from public input) through a regional transportation referendum.

The City of Atlanta is expected to receive a little over $9.0 million per year for ten years to spend on local projects. The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office, the Departments of Planning and Community Development and Public Works, in coordination with the Atlanta City Council, are working to develop a rolling five-year list of projects to be funded by the 15-percent local allocation, if the referendum passes in July.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. -- In the near future, you may be able to breathe into a machine and learn if you have lung cancer.

Mountain View-based Metabolomx has developed a breath test which can detect specific biomarkers produced by a cancerous tumor.

"The accuracy of the identification of lung cancer is 85 percent which compares favorably with any existing method of detecting the presence of lung cancer," said Paul Rhodes Ph.D. CEO of Metabolomx.

Doctors at Cleveland Clinic recently completed clinical trials on the five minute test and found it can differentiate between different types of lung cancer.

"The signature we find in the breath tells us a little bit about how that cancer is behaving. So a different type of cancer, one that is aggressive versus one that is a bit quieter will probably produce a different signature," said Dr. Peter Mazone who led the clinical trial at Cleveland Clinic.