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March 10, 2009 06:16 PM EDT --
Dear friends of Duane B,
I am Kathy O, Duane's daughter.
I am sorry to inform all of you that my father passed away unexpectedly of sudden heart failure on Monday, March 2nd.
My father . . .
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January 13, 2009 12:35 PM EST --
The CBS news program Sixty Minutes on January 11th revealed how the price of crude oil was driven up from $69 to $147 per barrel in 2008 by pure speculation by a variety of hedge funds . . .
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January 07, 2009 12:18 PM EST --
Americans love to complain about their high income tax rates, both Federal and State, but an analysis of the nominal tax code rates and the actual tax rates after all exemptions, deductions . . .
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December 14, 2008 09:21 AM EST --
Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. In my case its' Doritos. Doritos are tasty and crunchy, but too many of them are bad for my health, so . . .
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December 08, 2008 09:39 AM EST --
CBS's Sixty Minutes on Sunday, 12/7/08, had an extensive interview with key Saudi oil officials of their reactions on the oil price fluctuations, the drive for greener energy and . . .
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December 06, 2008 02:13 PM EST --
While everyone is looking for someone to blame for the mortgage meltdown, with the Republicans looking back as far as the 1970s to place the fault at the feet of the Democrats, it has been . . .
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November 16, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
There is a growing consensus in Congress that an additional economic stimulus package is going to be needed to boost economic activity again after consumer spending fell by 2.8% in October. . . .
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October 05, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
My commentary below was written as a response to an article that appeared in my local newspaper, The Greenville News. The link to the original article is below and I suggest you review . . .
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September 22, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
I grew up in Cleveland Ohio, attending Euclid High School and Western Reserve University. Even though I have lived in Greenville SC since 1979, I continue to follow the news from Cleveland, . . .
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September 03, 2008 01:13 PM EDT --
The Tax Foundation (taxfoundation.org) has published their annual analysis of federal income tax data for 2006. Americans filed 135,719,000 personal income tax returns for . . .
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August 13, 2008 09:22 PM EDT --
A recent study by the Government Accountability office has determined that from 1998 to 2005 67% of American corporations paid no Federal Income taxes. In addition, the study revealed . . .
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August 13, 2008 06:54 PM EDT --
Every week I spend an afternoon on a Helpline operated by our local United Way. The purpose of the Helpline is to connect local citizens with social service agencies that can . . .
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August 05, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
All of us accumulate too much "stuff" over the years, the inevitable result of living in a consumption-based economy. Virtually every town and city in our country has a gaggle . . .
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July 13, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
Senator John McCain thinks that young people funding the Social Security benefits for retired people in "disgraceful" and need to be stopped. The Senator is 71 and . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
The issue of healthcare is an important one in the current Presidential election year. Current estimates indicate that between 45 and 50 millions Americans are without any health insurance, . . .
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July 02, 2008 12:47 PM EDT --
Does anyone know how to import an Excel Spreadsheet into Gather and keep the format features of bolding, column centering, etc.????
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June 27, 2008 12:19 PM EDT --
After a week of near 100 degree temps in Greenville SC, my wife and I decided to take a week off and camp at one of our favorite campgrounds in Brevard NC. The daytime temperatures were . . .
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June 11, 2008 10:07 AM EDT --
Time's cover story for the June 16 th issue reveals that thousands of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are routinely being prescribed antidepressants to help them deal with . . .
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June 08, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
My recent article on the FLDS children placed, and recently released, from the Child Protective Services (CPS)/ foster care system in Texas resulted in some comments that were strongly critical . . .
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June 03, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
Now that the Texas courts have ruled that some of the FLDS children should be returned to their parents I think it is a good time review the conditions under which children can be removed . . .
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