From our own backyard
Florida is neither a Democratic state nor a Republican state, consistently. Instead, it's a consistent cow-calf state that ranks 12th in the U.S. as a beef producer, although most people don't realize it. Once, we were the No. 2 producer of beef in the nation, behind Texas. Full Story
Buck up, America — we've seen worse
How sour is the public mood? An NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll found about half of people believe 2008 was one of the worst years in American history. At times, Abraham Lincoln's lament has seemed apt, "We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. Full Story
Withdrawal from Iraq?
GUEST OPINION
A new year dawns with yet another sign of how much the news business has changed during the half-century that your reporter has been a part of it: As The New York Times reported this past week, the "Big Three" television news networks have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq. That's the same Iraq where more than 130,000 U.S. troops still stand in harm's way. Full Story
MUSINGS
Inordinate
What is more ordinary than looking up? We do it myriad times each day: a simple tilting of the ocular orb, with a possibly simultaneous coordination of cranial tilt. But if we are not simply looking up in space, but are also lifting up our gaze to be uplifted, that may be quest for the extraordinary. Full Story
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