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  • For our future

    Published on: 07/14/08

    A better way There's a better way to address our problems than a knee-jerk doubling of our sales tax. (Consider the looming 2 percent school and transportation taxes.) We shouldn't throw money at symptoms without seeking solutions through comprehensive studies of the causes, the needs, the cost, and a plan to pay for it.

  • Fifty years ago today, July 12, 1958

    Published on: 07/12/08

    Soviets Deny Fighters Shot U.S. Transport MOSCOW -- The Red Army's official newspaper Red Star today denied that Soviet fighters shot down the U.S. Air Force transport which crash-landed in Soviet Armenia June 27.

  • Floyd R. Turbo -- American

    Published on: 06/22/08

    You've known Floyd for years. He used to be a fairly regular fixture on The Tonight Show, looking a lot like Johnny Carson with a big gun and an Elmer Fudd cap.

  • Political sin and silliness

    Published on: 07/08/08

    We're barely into the get-down-to-business campaign season (advance voting just began Monday), and already the silly, the smarmy and the goofy are doing their best to distract political attention from more important matters.