12/02/2014 - 07:00
It is hard to believe the word
bling was once considered trendy. It seems almost quaint now, but
bling was, in fact, the
Oxford Dictionaries.com word of the year in 2000. This year, of course, the choice was
vape.
11/23/2014 - 20:00
Ah, the elusive Black Seadevil --there's a face only a mother could love.
11/20/2014 - 10:25
On any given Sunday afternoon, cyclists flood exercise paths and rural roads. But once Monday rolls around, most of them get in a car and drive to work.
11/20/2014 - 10:25
Jagged chunks of asphalt littered the shoulder of the road. I had no choice but to ride my mountain bike in the center of the lane.
11/17/2014 - 18:20
Even as the
nation’s economy is recovering, 1 out of 30 children experienced homelessness during 2013, according to a report by the National Center on Family Homelessness.
11/14/2014 - 08:49
During the midterm elections, voters in Arkansas, Nebraska, Alaska and South Dakota voted to increase their state’s
minimum wage – news widely heralded as a step in the right direction for low-wage earners.
11/07/2014 - 09:00
The jobs picture improved in October, as the unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
10/22/2014 - 20:00
In 1793, faced with an epidemic of yellow fever in Philadelphia, Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and a much respected medical doctor, recommended that all who could should
“quit the city.”
10/16/2014 - 20:00
If pushed to a wall, which is the bigger problem --religious and ethnic hatred, economic inequality, pollution, nuclear weapons or diseases such as AIDS?
10/13/2014 - 20:00
Cars have a way of finding potholes – and there are plenty of them to find.