Hawaii needs $1.23 billion and could use your help. Governor Linda Lingle is calling it a “fiscal crisis” and says it won’t be fixed with budget cuts alone. Essentially, the fiftieth state wants everyone else to chip in. This year’s budget gap is $721 million, which will be followed by $509.5 million next year. The [...]
Location: Minnesota, in the icy northern central USA Temp: 23°F in Minneapolis as I write, and the 25th has a projected low of 19°F Snow: Lots of it! Percentage of population who celebrates Christmas: 64.2 percent here are Christian “adherents” Are you there right now: Yes. All’s quiet on the northern front. What I love [...]
I’m fond of Greyhound bus travel. I like the idea of humanity rolling along on a highway. I like bus people. As one bus ticket seller once told me at the station in Columbus, Ohio as she surveyed the milling about passengers in the waiting area, “If you’re hard up and you need money, anyone [...]
There’s no official word from the White House, but the rumor mill (a.k.a. all of the local news sources) are saying that the Obama’s will spend their second consecutive Christmas in Hawaii. The Obama’s spent last year lounging in their luxurious Paradise Point Estate compound on the shores of Kailua on Oahu’s windward shore, and [...]
I recommend turning the audio down on your computer if you plan to watch this at work, or around children, as the narrator tends to swear a lot. Here is a video of something you don’t see every day out the airplane window – the launch of a Space Shuttle. The video was captured by [...]
Perhaps you read about the tourist couple who recently were ushered into a White House breakfast buffet with President and Michelle Obama even though they did not have an invitation. All Harvey and Paula Darden planned on doing when they showed up at the White House was take a tour that their congressman helped arrange [...]