Online headline: "Expedia Drops American Airlines Tickets From Listings" -- Used to be you couldn't find a Columbus hotel/motel online; now you may not be able to get here or leave.
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Online headline: "More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Plunge From Sky in Arkansas" -- Ooops, my bad. Thought we'd find out some new scientific explanation about how Global Warming has caused dead birds to be able to fly.
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Online headline: "What's pushing down Treasury Bonds? A rising U.S. economy" -- Actually, maybe a false positive rise in economy, but mainly because smart money is not going to park its cash in supporting the rising U.S. debt.
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L-E story: "(Councilwoman-elect Judy) Thomas said the council should pay close attention to the retirees medical premiums. The retirees’ share of the premium is going up 60 percent, which amounts to a $70 monthly increase" * “That will be one of the things I would like to take a look at very early on, making sure our retirees are taken care of,” Thomas said. “Many of them cannot afford that $70 a month increase and I think we need to take a real close look at that and see what we can do at this point.” -- Well, most of Columbus' taxpayers will not be happy shouldering that added expense on their backs, either. Just a foreboding sign of what we can expect from a former California teacher's union organizer.
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L-E headline: "Tomlinson areas sees many of opportunity " -- Well, what she really sees is the ill-defined 'two slush funds' created by the "LOST" tax revenues being available for plucking.
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Speaking of the new mayor, the first thing she did post election was to make her old law firm all male and the mayor's office all female.
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I do wonder if many people even know which channel their cable provider show CCG-TV on... I also wonder how people without cable will have a chance to watch the new mayor get sworn in.....
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Sheriff Darr jumped right in and removed an employee for misconduct. Marshal Countryman should have done the same for his badge-flashing clergyman.
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Scary L-E "sound off": " If gas goes to $5 a gallon, there will be economic chaos. The government will have to step in and take over the oil companies. " -- Liberals, liberals, liberals! You can't live with them, and you can't make them understand economics. Even if the government took over the gas /oil businesses, and lowered the pump price to .50 cents, the cost would be higher than what it was because even their taxes would have to raised to cover the revenue shortfall.
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What Lincoln did to cut the shackles of slavery free from all men has been countered by DUMB&DUMBERat programs that attach those impoverished to the government umbilical cord. There are more "slaves" dependent on DUMB&DUMBERat government program doles than there were 150 years ago.
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There should be a clause in the NFL rules that excludes a team without a winning record from being in the playoffs. Seattle, with a 7-9 record will be in the playoffs as a "division champ" (no team in its division had a winning record), while the Giants and Bucs, with 10-6 records, are finished for the season.