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Shoestring Living: Be grateful every day

Figure yourself out already I plot and plunder each year ... When you’re appreciating a sunrise after a sleepless night, how can you focus on being tired? Become aware of the good in your life and cel... read more

Skipper: Does Mason City want the candle or the curse?

I think it’s a message inherent in Mayor Bill Schickel’s state-of-the-city ... it will cost from here on out. Neither he, Burnett nor the current council can be held responsible for money already spen... read more

Plans for new LSU-VA hospital campus expected to come this week

After weighing possible ... said city and state leaders could stimulate the rebirth of these closed medical buildings by encouraging developers to take advantage of historic and new market tax credits ... read more

Storm Aftermath: Live Updates

Trains in northern New Jersey were expected to remain out of service for several weeks, after sustaining extensive damage ... be restored across New Jersey is now available on a state Web site. The st... read more

Constitution Day: House holds first-ever floor reading of founding document

After -- what else? -- a little partisan wrangling ... Republicans have promoted it as a way to return members' focus to the country's founding principles. "This historic and symbolic reading is long ... read more

What issue is most important to you?

A middle class tax ... impact out here– house prices went up, and Iraq is looking better than ever. Now we need to concentrate on how well the sanctions and diplomacy have worked so far in North Korea ... read more

Just when I thought I had heard every bone-headed historical analogy by antivaccinationists

Well, QEDCon is over, and this box of blinky lights is on its way back across the pond to its home in the US, having had an excellent time imbibing skepticism from its (mostly) British and European pa... read more

Russia Investigation Heading Toward a Train Wreck Because Republicans Don’t Care What Happened

This investigation would have been successfully carried out by the government’s normal mechanisms — because in this made up universe, politicians would care more about the country they live in than ge... read more

We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore

tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in ... read more

Music Scene: Actor Ronny Cox is a musician first

“We are editing it now, for release next year, and there are plenty of stories. Out of all the films I’ve done (125 film and TV movies by one count), more people want to talk to me about ‘Deliverance’ ... read more

Stories for April 2014

Two years after the Fairfax County ... This year, state First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe is serving as the benefit’s honorary chair. “We are honored to have Mrs. McAuliffe as our Honorary Chair for our 20... read more

McCain's Seven-State Sprint: Arizona

When McCain headed to the podium, accompanied by his wife Cindy, he didn't bound up on stage but instead walked up at a leisurely pace and held his arms out with his thumbs ... and Thompson endorsed h... read more