Perhaps the cash for clunkers program should be replaced with a plan from Australia, a country with little to no oil but lots of natural gas. ...more

August 1, 2009

Britney Spears' "Circus" won't be coming to Warsaw. ...more

July 15, 2009

With reference to library funding and the article in Highlands Today one week ago, "Library Director Mary Myers was told not to speak to newspapers," what happened to free speech? ...more

July 1, 2009

Jim Rahenkamp postulates that "the silver tongued Pied Piper of Change" has led us down the slope so far and with such momentum that we have reached the point of no return. He states, "Capitalism requires that production must exceed consumption" and "We no longer export more than we import." I assume this was meant to imply that this condition has come about during the less than six months that President Obama has been in office. ...more

June 17, 2009

Starbucks Corp. says it has repaid all 1 million customers the gourmet coffee chain inadvertently double-charged on Memorial Day weekend. ...more

June 11, 2009

President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims" during a speech Thursday in Cairo. Some topics he addressed: ...more

June 5, 2009

A federal judge has put a hold on his order allowing detainees at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan access to courts until the government can appeal. ...more

June 1, 2009

MARKETS CLOSED There is no stock listing in today's paper because financial markets in the United States were closed for Memorial Day. ...more

May 26, 2009

A reasonable and only explanation for the U.S. Air Force flying at night is practice. Agreed, they are loud, but if we were to find ourselves in a war zone, the Air Force, Navy and Marines will be prepared to protect the United States. ...more

May 20, 2009

The poll says Americans like the idea of hybrids but think they're still too expensive. ...more

May 18, 2009