A whole year of a lotta talk, talk, talk
One year ago this week, WGCU-FM 90.1 Fort Myers and Punta Gorda, and 91.7 Marco, finally sold out — to fashion, to comfort, to the norm. To market studies and numbers. Full Story
Stupid nation
OPINION
The Obama team is saddled with a foundering health-care strategy. But it has a fallback plan — relying on the sheer dimwitted gullibility of the American public. How stupid do they think we are? Stupid enough to think that a new $1 trillion health-care entitlement is just the thing to restore the country to fiscal health. Full Story
'Serious and deteriorating'
GUEST OPINION
Last weekend, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, candidly described the situation in Afghanistan as "serious and deteriorating." It was a point underscored by the massive truck bomb that killed scores of civilians this week in Kandahar, which had not, until then, been a focal point of Taliban violence. This is the backdrop against which Gen. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On Sept. 2, 1666, in the earlymorning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire spread to engulf 13,000 houses, nearly 90 churches and scores of public buildings. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died. Full Story
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