Feb 22
As they used to say on Laugh-In, “Verrrry interesting.” West Vancouver’s newly elected mayor, Michael Smith, speaks out against the waste of money with respect to Metro Vancouver meetings and your editorial jumps all over him for shorting value to his constituents. When Goldsmith-Jones was first elected mayor she appointed me to the GVRD finance …
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Feb 13
ROANOKE COUNTY, VA — Roanoke County School Board leaders have shown before that when their backs are against the wall, they will reluctantly close a school. The board voted in February 2010 to close bent Mountain Elementary, and move its more than 50 students to Back Creek Elementary School. Superintendent Dr. Lorraine Lange said they’re …
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Feb 01
The small headline on the 4:30 PM Tuesday edition of the WSJ on my iPad said, “Rising Income is Saved, Not Spent.” I know this will sound like a quibble, but bear with me. it is a quibble, but the headline encourages a popular misconception with possible adverse policy implications. The thing is that the …
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Feb 01
The Chinese zodiac’s 12 animal signs are always popular symbols in both East and West. and when the Lunar new Year arrives, enthusiasts all over the world are eager to get their hands on the best collections. This year, the focus is on stamps. Han Bingbin reports. Designer Chen Shaohua say his dragon stamp this …
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Jan 22
Topic: American Culture The net could help re-establish regional identities in the virtual world, don't pass restrictive federal laws against the opportunities of the internet. by Mark Vogl (libertarian) Friday, January 20, 2012 A true patriots of the South, a man who I believe is a friend despite his disappointment in me, has repeatedly expressed …
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Jan 13
Political concepts work upon us for very different reasons and entreat our attention in very different ways. Some impose their authority over our thinking and actions because they saturate our environment, incanted strategically, or wondrously shorn of reflection on the public stage. we might seize on them for scrutiny because they seem to offer the …
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Dec 19
In craving the niceties of governments; the bureaucracies that define how they interact in addition to the citizenry, also how the people at large are manipulated for the reason that partisan furthermore monetary purposes; I tolerate acquired that there is a swell pact of difficulty the normal citizen about the formation of governments as well …
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Dec 17
Friday, 9 December 2011, 11:32 am Press Release: Handmade Wellington, 9 December2011Something old, something new,something quirky – just for you! What dopreserves, amigurumi, cheese making, quilting and rubberstamps have in common? They all feature in the HANDMADE 2012programme released today. “HANDMADE is a festival forpeople who want to learn the skills and crafts of previousgenerations …
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Dec 02
WASHINGTON – Republican congressional leaders stressed a willingness Wednesday to extend a Social Security payroll tax cut due to expire Dec. 31, setting up a year-end clash with Democrats over how to pay for a provision at the heart of President Obama’s jobs program. “We just think we shouldn’t be punishing job creators to pay …
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Nov 30
The bye weeks might be history, but the injuries keep on coming. Fantasy football owners still have more holes to fill than Dunkin Donuts does, so making the right moves on the waiver wire is ultra-important at this time of the season, especially since many leagues’ trading deadlines have already passed. Here are five waiver …
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