Shhh. I'm in a trance. Each year at this time, I gaze into my crystal ball or lapse into a supernaturally induced trance to predict what will happen in the coming year. Here now, is Part I of Scott's Trance-Induced 2010 Year in Preview: ...more

December 30, 2009

Jobs trump airplane After reading the story, "Unequipped pest plane idle 6 years" (front page, Dec. 20), I started shaking my head in disbelief over our local government at work. All I can say is that I hope come mosquito season the overpriced 1979 King Air finally gets in the air and does the job it was meant to do in 2003, or I say let's go back to the trucks. It just might save a few county workers their jobs in 2010! ...more

December 24, 2009

Democratic leaders in the Senate unveiled their proposal Wednesday for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit. ...more

November 19, 2009

During discussions with people here in my community, when you ask them who has control over taxing, spending and oversight during the last eight years they will tell you "Bush and the Republicans." ...more

March 26, 2009

WASHINGTON - A top Chrysler executive warned Wednesday that a carmaker collapse could send the economy spiraling into a depression, while the United Auto Workers agreed to new concessions for their companies. ...more

December 3, 2008

Republican John McCain delivered his toughest criticism so far of President Bush's economic policies as he unveiled a new campaign stump speech that promised an energetic fight to reverse his slide in the polls. ...more

October 14, 2008

I don't recall the last time three major TV networks sent their anchors on a foreign visit. ...more

July 26, 2008

It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. So it has, the latest instance being President Bush's decision to ask Congress to end the federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of America's continental shelf. ...more

June 20, 2008

Faulty Logic Regarding 'Bangkok Seems Destined To Slip Below The Rising Sea' (Nation/World, Oct. 21): ...more

October 27, 2007