DEAR ABBY: I’m 21, and my 16-year-old sister is out of control. She told me she smokes marijuana, drinks alcohol, abuses painkillers and recently mentioned she does coke. Abby, she is beautiful, and I don’t want to see her do this to herself. She’s living with me about an hour away from my parents because […]
September 2013
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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2013. There are 97 days left in the year. On Sept. 25, 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
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Let’s play bridge
Maine has a bridge problem. New England has a bridge problem. The nation has a bridge problem. Red flags, lots of them — 86,413 countrywide in fact — are waving, according to the federal National Bridge Inventory. A redflagged bridge means that a federal inspection has determined it to be either “structurally deficient,” in which […]
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Stuck in the middle
Economic populism — or, as I prefer to call it, the rise of the angry middle class — had its modern roots in a place that one might think curious. Around this time of year, shareholders get proxy tickets from the companies in which they invest. The ticket allows the shareholder to go to the […]