U.S. Highway 40 is one of the initial Greyhound route casualties, taking out a string of Utah cities that includes Vernal, Roosevelt, Myton, Duchesne and Heber, along with Echo and Park City (along Interstate 80), and Logan (U.S. 89). Altogether, Greyhound is eliminating service to 260 U.S. cities and towns between Chicago and Seattle in its first round of cuts, effective Aug. 18. Long ago, after Pop died, my mom became the defacto “family fixer.” Her brother, my Uncle Charlie, would give her money for a plane ticket to Steamboat Springs, CO now and then to look after their oldest…
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If you haven’t read A View from A Broad yet, you should. From the beginning. It’s that good, and that compelling, and all that a blog can be. Everyone, from either side of the political aisle, should read it. I’ve been thinking about the huge waste of time it is for our country to be politically polarized. I think the Religious Right has hijacked the Republican Party. Or maybe we’re actually in a three-party system now (a political threeway: very complicated relations between bedfellows). Which would mean we have the Democratic Party (note: it’s not the Democrat Party, you mokes)…
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A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees ” some as young as 10″ are also being subjected to rape and torture And still this story doesn’t splash all over the major television and print news outlets. It’s been bouncing around since Seymour Hersh’s first reports. A Google search on an unfortunate but important phrase in the story brings it up all over the blogiverse and the international news. It’s been touched on by a couple of our major papers, but it…
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The widow of former President, and Republican icon, Ronald Reagan has told the GOP she wants nothing to do with their upcoming national convention or the re-election campaign of President George W. Bush. Whoa. So noted. They really ticked her off over a campaign ad they were all set to run during or just after the week of Reaganmania that used images of former President Reagan in a way that seemed to connect his presidency to Bush’s, or gave the impression that he would have approved of Bush’s reelection. Scroll down in the article for some more tasty fulminations from…