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State Rep. Kurt Granberg spells out one theme in this election season: "I feel like the island is sinking and there are sharks in the water."Granberg is a…
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Candidates who dare to be different need a lot of stars to align before they can win public office. It's hard to say whether that could happen for Eric…
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Grocery aisles offer something for everyone these days: low-sodium soup for adults with high blood pressure, gluten-free pasta for children with wheat…
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Worrying about the environment seems rather trendy these days. That's not to demean former Vice President Al Gore's new global warming film, An…
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When fewer people have health insurance, everyone pays more. Nationwide, the added expense of treating everything from sore throats to heart disease in…
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Picture a husband and wife refurbishing their 100-year-old home and opening a bed and breakfast that overlooks a lake in an old resort community. Then…
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Don't blink or your mode of communication could become outdated. The cell phones that play music, take pictures and send e-mails are light years away from…
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You say tomato. I say tomahto. What the governor calls efficiency in state government, a labor union calls a crisis in staff erosion.Gov. Rod Blagojevich…
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The first time Staff Sgt. David Winkel returned from a year in Iraq, he was 30 pounds lighter and used to sleeping a handful of hours, a gun by his side.…
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Rep. Raymond Poe has gotten calls from contractors who clean up the environment whenever an underground storage tank leaks. They're nervous there won't be…