Late Monday morning, Lamark Ferguson, a recent graduate, awoke to find his apartment complex on fire and knocked on the doors of his neighbors to aler ... View all

Beginning July 1, residents outside Champaign County that are involved in a car accident on Interstate 74 will be charged a fee for the emergency resp ... View all

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One of the issues presented by the RAISE Bill is exclusive representation. That is, under the NLRA, the union chosen by the employees by majority vote ... View all

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The figure of $1.4 million, for the amount of the taxpayers' money that will be spent on saving each job at General Motors and Chrysler, has now appea ... View all

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This article includes a review of a complimentary stay at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, WA (about 90 minutes south of Seattle by car). I recei ... View all

I don’t have to tell those of you reading this that tonight is Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.  The last game of the season; meaning, there is ... View all

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In Great Britain and other countries, it is called a VAT (Value Added Tax).  By any other name, it is a national sales tax.  And it may be coming to y ... View all

Perhaps Leica has finally realized that its lenses are where the real action is. The M8 rangefinder might be a beautifully engineered tool, but it loo ... View all

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IMELDA MARCOS When forced to flee the Philippines in 1986, Imelda Marcos left 5,400 shoes behind her in the Malacanang Palace, collected from around t ... View all

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I totally dropped the ball on the last Book Club. Sadly, I chose a book that held many fond childhood memories f ... View all