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| The Jan. 14 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing corporations and unions unlimited financial involvement in Federal elections will open floodgates of cash from corporations and ultimately influence our electoral process. more... |
| Once there was a land where the villages were able to locally assess and tax their property owners for enough money to pay for the village's schools, public health and safety protection, and for other locally needed vital services. | |
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There was a time when government work didn't pay much, but provided really good benefits and almost lifetime employment. |
| The “Other Voices” opinions by Connie Stevens and Sue Jeffrey demonstrated vividly the sharp divisions in mindsets so prevalent in our country today. | |
| As someone who is always looking at the healthful potential of any given product, recently I read an article that really made my tail wag. | |
| Friday afternoon — a weekend of football playoffs and I'm looking forward to Friday evening and some relaxation. Then my wife drops the news — “We're committed to going to the Nevada Union Football Awards Banquet.” I... | |
| I have been a Nevada County Library user since the third grade, when I discovered the Nevada City Library had books far more interesting than “The Adventures of Dick and Jane.” | |
| Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent -- an agent of Saudi Arabia? | |
| If President Obama's recent face-to-face meeting with congressional Republicans had been a prizefight, they'd have stopped it: Obama by TKO. It was such a mismatch that Fox News, unofficial network of the GOP, basically conceded defeat by cutting away 20... | |
| Howard Zinn, legendary historian, author and activist, died last week at the age of 87. His most famous book is “A People's History of the United States.” Zinn told me last May, “The idea of ‘A People's History'... | |
| He's in his second year as president, and he has discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can't do everything he wants to do, such as remake America. Doing stuff is hard. In the past, prosaic work has held little appeal for... | |
| I was curious after the Democrats' bitter loss in Massachusetts exactly which Barack Obama would show up to deliver his first State of the Union address. Would it be the impassioned motivator who, when accepting his party's nomination, delivered the... | |
| They called it a "miracle." Maybe it wasn't the Spirit of 1776, but something like it was in the air as Republican Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate seat held by Edward M. Kennedy for six decades. Running on resetting health-care reform in... | |
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There should never have been a doubt. Time and time again ... just when I think you've been tapped out ... you deliver. |
| As a chiropractor, I regularly have patients who want to take an active role in their health care. They want to eat right, exercise efficiently, and use supplements wisely. | |
| We live in a mountainous community where we're able to avoid most of the man-made dangers that occur in the big city, but we still have quite a few dangers up here in this neck of the woods; mountain lions, bears, coyotes and pine needles. | |
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