LA Mayor Calls for $8B Property Tax Hike

Antonio Villaraigosa

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed dismantling California’s Proposition 13, which helped begin a nationwide anti-tax movement, in favor of a “grand bargain” that would boost levies on business property.

Companies paid more for wholesale goods, though inflation pressures muted

Inflation

WASHINGTON — A key measure of wholesale inflation rose in July by the most in six months.

Tennessee Woman Told to Remove American Flag Outside Her Optometry Office

American Flag

Dawn Kamin said she would expect opposition to the flying of an American flag in more liberal parts of the country – but not the suburbs of Memphis, Tenn.

Fact following fiction? Scientists plan mission to blow up an asteroid ‘hurtling towards Earth’

European Space Agency

It seemed far-fetched on the silver screen.

The Skinny on Sweeteners

Sweetner

Are you confused by the vast array of sweeteners that are used in foods? I find that our society has demonized the word “sugar,” perhaps because we think of blood glucose as blood “sugar” and for decades we associated sugar with being bad for diabetics.

Republican Party Blindness

GOP

Beginning in 2000, with the election to the presidency of George W. Bush, the Republican Party enjoyed control over both the legislative and executive branches of government. Election Day, 2006, however, marked the beginning of the end of this era, and by November of 2008, voters had long since resolved to bring the Republicans’ reign to a decisive close.

Lambertville vandalism turns life-threatening

Vandalism

LAMBERTVILLE, MI (WTOL) – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department is working to solve a case of vandalism that turned life-threatening.

Barbie.xxx? RedCross.xxx? Brands Scramble to Prevent X-Rated Rip-Offs

BarbieXXX

By Reuters, FOXNews.com NEW YORK – In preparation for a new triple-x Internet domain that will launch in December, lawyers for the most storied brands in the United States are scrambling to prevent an x-rated rip-off of an invaluable asset: corporate Web addresses. The domain operator administering the .xxx domain is accepting early applications from [...]

Study: An hour of TV can shorten your life by 22 minutes

Mother and son watching TV

From MSNBC.com Watching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer’s life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia. The AFP news agency said scientists at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland studied 11,000 Australian adults who were aged at least 25 in [...]

Rick Perry: Fed Printing More Money Would Be “Treasonous”

Rick Perry on the Federal Reserve

From Real Clear Politics “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion,” Gov. [...]

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