America expands once again — digitally, this time

Source: SouthCoastToday.com

NEW YORK — The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress a ...
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The Curse of the Bastard Sons

Source: The Good Men Project

There is very little in fiction that is better than a good curse. Here we have an excerpt from a novel we must all be on the watch for: Vanishing Act, by Emily Kiernan. In this excerpt, myth and manhood mix and the past is ev ...
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Coppin’s Hallmark Store: Happy Nappers Pillow Pet Review & Giveaway

Source: About A Mom

When I was a girl, my favorite store to visit in the mall was Hallmark. Now as a forty-something mom, Hallmark is still at the top of my list. Coppin’s has Hallmark stores located all over the United States. These days ...
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Intercity Transit deserves busload of credit for sustainability

Source: The Olympian

tool goes here Congrats to Intercity Transit for winning the American Public Transportation Association’s Gold award for its efforts in developing environmentally, socially and economically sustainable practices. A ...
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Days Gone By: Dispatched to hatch a California postal plan, Van Voorheis is stymied in San Francisco

Source: Contra Costa Times

deserted and took off for the gold fields. It took the captain until June to find a replacement crew. The outrageous prices charged for goods and labor in San Francisco in March of 1849 flabbergasted Special Agent William Van Voorhei ...
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Senate Is on a Roll in Passing Bipartisan Bills

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — For the Congressional chamber where bills usually go to die, the Senate is on something of a roll, passing bipartisan legislation, confirming nominees — and potentially isolating House Republican leaders ...
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North Texans should educate selves, then go vote

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

I encourage voters to check the voting record of all candidates. The best way to predict what a man will do in the future is to look at what he has done in the past. -- Dorothy McWhorter, Bedford For the last few weeks the vot ...
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Disappearing Phone Booths, Part III: Privacy Harms

Source: Center for Democracy and Technology

The million-dollar question is: Why should we care about privacy? Or as some would put it, what’s the harm? There are a number of different types of harms that CDT often thinks about. Here, I want to focus on four ...
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Readers upset about Jackson's mail processing operations being moved to Detroit

Source: MLive.com

Several readers and Facebook fans agreed with Marcotte, who is the president of the Michigan Postal Workers Union. About 14 postal service workers from Jackson would be transferred to other locations in the ...
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