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John Moynihan will bring the change that is so desperately needed in the state of Illinois. He will provide the representation of the people and not the insider power elite of a party. Putting people before party is what the people need in our representatives to get out of the political quagmire that has stalemated progress in this state.
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Paul Domowitch: He looks like a new Manning lately
The Giants are the ninth wild-card team to reach the Super Bowl since the 1970 merger. Wild-card teams are 4-4 in the Super Bowl, but have won three of the last four times they've gotten there. DID YOU KNOW?: Mike Carey, who will be the referee for Super Bowl XLII, also was the referee for the Giants-Patriots game in Week 17. .
Build a vacation around bookstores
Tourists also like to stop in at the bar next door, Vesuvio, to have a drink where Kerouac once bellied up. Elliott Bay Book Co. 101 S. Main St., Seattle; www.elliottbaybook.com or toll-free 1-800-962-5311. Elliott Bay Book Co. is located in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square district, once the city's Skid Row but now known for nightclubs, galleries, sports arenas and architecture, including the 1867 red-brick building that houses Elliott Bay Book Co. Cedar shelves offer 150,000 new and used titles in rooms with exposed brick walls, and one or two readings are held every night. "It can be anyone from a first-time poet to Dave Sedaris returning for his 10th time," said Elliott Bay spokeswoman Tracy Taylor. "We had him here when nobody knew who he was and there were 15 people in the audience.
The coming rust-belt recovery
We should note that economy cannot grow continuously forever. Just ask the bacteria in a petry dish. Growth of economy or population is exponential - more you have faster the growth (or decline). Anything on earth growing exponentially must eventually come to a stop. We need to decide where we want the steady state (no growth) to be. Must we continue struggling with nature or can we find a happy balance? Posted 27/01/08 at 4:09 AM EST | Link to Comment .
Popular eatery adds niche
It's more than just the desserts that have kept people coming back to the Galley Hatch for more than 35 years. A family business through and through, the Hampton restaurant is owned by John Tinios, whose parents opened the eatery in 1970. With its wooden booths and New England quaintness, the Galley Hatch Restaurant and its bar, The Tap Room, provide a kind of shelter-from-the-storm quality that brings you back to the heart and soul of what the restaurant business is all about. .
Tapped Out
ATF agents and Philadelphia narcotics detectives had spent two years building a case against a rap music entrepreneur who they believed was running a $25 million drug ring - one of Philadelphia's largest. People connected to drug deals, shootings, and murders seemed to work for him, but investigators needed more evidence. Shortly after 4 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2005, Joe Smith was found riddled with bullets in the backseat of an SUV at a Getty station in Southwest Philadelphia. Smith, a barrel-chested, 30-year-old drug dealer, had been shot 20 times in the chest, abdomen, arms, legs, back and pelvis. Two shots perforated his right lung. Another shot, fired from a gun pressed against his back, sliced through his liver and right kidney. Before he died, Smith named the man who had shot him.
Smoking discussion to resurface; Four cigarette-related bills before ...
The last cigarettes were extinguished in restaurants and bars two months ago, but state lawmakers aren't done talking about lighting up.
There are four proposals up for discussion this winter that could change who has access to tobacco products and where they can smoke them.
At least two legislators want smoke shops and cigar bars to resume selling tobacco products while they serve drinks, including liquor. The catch? At least 60 percent of the businesses' sales would need to be from tobacco products.
The proposal wouldn't apply to any local venues, and would probably affect fewer than 20 businesses statewide, but the representatives who proposed the bills said selling tobacco isn't illegal, and smoking it in a smoke shop that happens to sell drinks shouldn't be either.
Restless retiree
Retirement for Gerry Phelps means reading through her Bible for the 45th time. From her 15th-floor apartment in the RBJ Towers, a low-income senior citizen complex founded by Lyndon Baines Johnson in honor of his mother Rebekah, Phelps can read and enjoy a panoramic view of downtown Austin: capitol dome, corporate towers, the University of Texas campus. The LBJ connection is a nice touch. Phelps despised him and Richard Nixon, and in 1969 went to prison for her role in the botched armed robbery of a liquor store meant to raise funds for a radical, anti-war newspaper. At the time she committed the crime, Phelps was a leftist, working on her Ph.D. and teaching economics at the University of Houston. In prison she became a Christian. In 1976, after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence, she gained parole to San Francisco.
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