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6B Daily News – Wednesday, June 8, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Obama not concerned about second recession WASHINGTON (AP) — With few options at hand and his poll numbers sagging, President Barack Obama expressed concern Tuesday about the sudden slowdown in the economy but said he is not worried about a second recession and the nation should ‘‘not panic.’’ The president spoke about the new economic trouble in detail for the first time since a report late last week showed job growth had slowed sharply in May. He tried to reas- sure Americans worried about high unemployment and expensive gas that the nation is on a slow, if not steady, path to recovery. ‘‘I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not pro- ducing jobs as quickly as I want it to happen,’’ Obama said at an appearance with visiting German Chancel- lor Angela Merkel. ‘‘We don’t yet know whether this is a one-month episode or a longer trend.’’ Either way, appears to be little Wash- ington can do about it. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, speaking in Atlanta on Tuesday, acknowledged the econo- my has lost momentum but said nothing to suggest the Fed was about to take any bold new action to fur- ther shore it up. Democrats decline to there defend Weiner WASHINGTON (AP) — Fellow Democrats point- edly refused to defend Rep. Anthony Weiner on Tues- day, telegraphing an unmis- takable eagerness for him to resign after he admitted sending a lewd photo of himself to a woman via Twitter and lying about it. Republicans swiftly sought political profit from the New York Democrat’s predicament, which threat- ened to deepen when con- servative blogger Andrew Breitbart said he had a sexu- ally explicit photo of the 46- year-old congressman. His political career in St. Elizabeth Community Hospital and the D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY proudly announce the 2011 Tehama County Medical Guide A reference guide to North State medical professionals and related medical services available to Tehama County residents. •• 7,000 in full-run distribution of The Daily News • 3,000 additional distribution throughout 2011: Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce office/Visitor Center Hotels at Rolling Hills Casino and Red Bluff area Advertisers receive copies for countertop distribution • Online version of this special publication is posted on RedBluffDailyNews.com, all year long, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! This highly viewed online edition reached over 15,000 unique visitors during 2010…don’t miss the opportunity to reach this online audience for 2011! • Digital technology allows viewers to “turn pages” and even click from your ad to your website! Red Bluff and Tehama County Chambers, Tehama County and City of Red Bluff post this special edition on their websites. Advertising and Copy Deadline: FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011 INSERTS: THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2011 1/8 Pg.................$199.00 1/4 Pg.................$325.00 Half Pg...............$485.00 Full Pg................$765.00 Advertising Rates (cost includes same-size adjacent space for promotional copy, provided by advertiser) Inside Front...................$1150.00 Inside Back....................$1015.00 Back Cover....................$1275.00 Center Double Truck.....$2175.00 For space reservations, contact your Daily News Display Advertising Representative at (530) 527-2151 extreme jeopardy, Weiner had no public appearances. His spokesman did not respond to repeated requests for comment. On Monday, after days of denials, the New York lawmaker admitted he had engaged in ‘‘several inap- propriate conversations con- ducted over Twitter, Face- book, email and occasional- ly on the phone with women I had met online.’’ Alternately apologetic and defiant, he said he nei- ther met nor had physical relationships with any of them, and added, ‘‘I am not resigning.’’ Cantor optimistic WASHINGTON (AP) — A key GOP negotiator in talks on lifting the govern- ment’s borrowing cap said Tuesday that it may take more than a decade to accu- mulate savings to pay off the approximately $2.4 tril- lion in new debt needed to keep the government afloat for about a year and a half. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., also said that he believes any agreement to raise the so-called debt ceiling — and avoid a market-rattling, first-ever default on U.S. obligations — should be enacted sometime next month, before an Aug. 2 deadline. Kyl is a partici- pant in top-level talks aimed at producing spending cuts to pass in concert with the debt limit increase. ‘‘A debt ceiling increase is only over roughly an 18- month period of time. The savings could play out (over) more than a decade,’’ Kyl told reporters.