Smoking, drinking, dining, and a few more tasty sins of excess, plus taxes for dessert. It's the annual Dining Guide, so be sure to check out the whole issue. And on that note, my personal recent favorite for a place to get...
From Crabtree Farms board member Josh McManus: Friends, Vanessa Mercer, a good friend and colleague, has announced that she will be stepping down from her role as Executive Director of Crabtree Farms to start a family. The search committee has just...
Tomorrow I have to go to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. It is one of my remaining baby teeth (I have four) and it has to come out because there is a hole in it. When I have...
BlackBerry's answering the iPhone. ...Research In Motion is still in business and is preparing to release its first Wi-Fi-enabled smart phone, the BlackBerry 8820. The 8820 is also noteworthy as RIM's thinnest phone that includes a full QWERTY keyboard. (via...
Here's an interesting thing. Someone at Global Strategy Group has hit this site several times in the past couple of days due to their internet searches on names that have been floated as possible Democratic candidates to replace Ward...
Here we are at Kristine's art show couple of weeks ago. It was a full house.Vincent's article on the AVA's Emerging Artist's Exhibit has also come out on the Pulse. So you if want to know more about...
If you don't live near racial minorities you have another unarticulated reason to be glad: your environment's probably cleaner. From CNN: As he surveys the nation's landfills, chemical plants, waste facilities, and smelters, Robert Bullard sees an insidious form of institutional racism. Robert...
There was a study on nose-picking published in February of 1995 in the Journal of Psychiatry. Yes, you read it right - college professors being paid the big bucks to find out who picks their nose. Of the 1000 surveys...
A veritable smorgasbord of potential candidates have come out of the woodwork now that Ward Crutchfield is stepping down in August. But before we all rest easy, when someone of Ward's influence and lengthy career is found to be corrupt...
The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an internal review involving the White House,...
From Commondreams:
by Matthew Cardinale
SAVANNAH, Georgia - Troy Anthony Davis, a death row inmate in the U.S. state of Georgia whose guilt has been challenged by new evidence, won a 90-day stay of his sentence Monday, just hours before his scheduled...
Crabtree Farms & CreateHere are proud to sponsor this months Green Drinks! For directions, click here or here. The August Green Drinks will be hosted by OCI, so don't forget to save the date!...
Oceana has published the most extensive report to date focusing on the conversion of mercury-cell chlorine factories to more environmentally and economically sound mercury-free technology. The report shows that shifting has major economic benfits to the companies. Download the Executive...
There are a lot folks trying to blame climate change on the sun.
The Real Climate blog's latest post discusses the latest data that disproves that theory.
They have started a new wiki to discuss the misinformation on this subject.
Feel free to...
I couldn't locate any blogs or news sites with word from yesterday's special general election to fill former Rep. (now Sen.) Beverly Marrero's seat in District 89, but there's always www.shelbyvote.com. Maybe not many are reporting it because it was highly...
I waited two months for this stroller to come in the mail from the States - what used to be easy shopping is now a luxury I don't take for granted. Staying up too late. Ate some of the best chocolate...
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