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A report released last week reveals that most of us believe only teens from poor or single-parent families get pregnant.
Scarcely any mention is made in the Sixth Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Plan of the one energy source capable of making a decisive difference in air quality and greenhouse-gas emissions.
‘What now, lieutenant?”
Nine years ago, in October 2000, I came to Connecticut from Bosnia. It was a dream coming true for me. I was only 15. I was “shipped” out of my country as a product – a product of war.
This will be remembered as the year of the big corporate bailout – in which the American public recoiled at how the federal government rewarded corporate scoundrels for their profound lack of business sense.
Boeing’s not gone. Yet. Nearly everyone sees the decision to put the second 787 line in South Carolina as portentous. It’s like the shrieking strings in Psycho. We’re on edge, anticipating more bad news.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving a couple of weeks ago. My husband and I are still enjoying the leftovers, and the kids took home some pumpkin and apple pie.
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COVESVILLE, Va. It probably was both dark and stormy the night the worlds two favorite monsters were born. We know the place Geneva, Switzerland and the year 1816. We even know the month mid-June though the exact date is uncertain, for who is to say when in the evolution from unformed fears to embodied gruesomeness a monster really can be said to come to life?
Together we can make 2009 the year we improve elections in Pierce County.
Although daylight-saving time was sold politically as an energy-conservation measure, it does no such thing. Studies conducted in Indiana prior to 2006, when that state operated under three different time regimes, show either no difference in energy consumption or a small increase in power usage during the months after clocks were moved one hour ahead.
In November 1979, 23 Pierce County citizens were elected freeholders. We were responsible for creating a new form of government through a document called the Pierce County charter.
The Pierce County Council has placed three proposed Charter amendments on Tuesday’s ballot. While Amendment 2 may seem the least threatening of the three, the problems it poses are endemic to all three amendments.
Not long ago, I was blithely driving along, listening to a public radio story on senior citizens and unemployment.
Americans are frustrated, and rightly so, that until now the public funds made available to save Wall Street have not yet created jobs on America’s proverbial Main Streets. In Pierce County, the unemployment rate stands at 9 percent, and statewide unemployment stands at 9.3 percent.
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