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How do you personally benefit through taxes?
By Jane Belanger, Published Sept. 1, 2010
Schools and libraries. I went to college for free the first two years through the government and public school growing up. Tennessee ... More Comments (5)
News
- CEOs Who Chopped Most Heads Raked in ...: Chief executives who slashed payrolls the most took home 42% ...
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News from Stringers
San Diego Unified’s Budget Problems Extend to Disabled Student Programs
By T.E. Bach, Published Sept. 2, 2010
The San Diego Unified School District board met in a “Special Meeting” on Tuesday, August 31 (click to boarddocs.com/ca/sandi/Board.nsf/Public for more info). ... More Comment (1)
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On the Farm with the Chefs from Mistral
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“Going” Green by Motorcoach
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Jimmy Powers was born in Boston, went to grade school in Houston, and was shipped back to Boston before landing ...
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Relentless
Top of the heap this week, The Tillman Story rehashes the shameful facts of how Pat Tillman, Jr., the Arizona Cardinal who set aside a professional football career to enlist ... More
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Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
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Takers
Elementary heist thriller rendered unwatchable by director John Luessenhop’s ...
Food & Drink
Restaurant Review
Sessions Public, a new brave-heart gastropub in Ocean Beach
My posse-mate Lynne, queen of the food-blog scouts, discovered Sessions Public via a detailed, positive review on Chowhound, one of the most honest and sophisticated local food boards. (Oddly enough, ...
Tin Fork
North Park's Veg-N-Out serves burgers without the burger
Decision time: Eddie’s Philadelphia Steaks or Lefty’s Chicago Pizza? I’m near Upas, quarter of nine at night. Got half an hour before the next #2 bus. Oh, what the heck. ...
Travel
Gather No Moss: Travel Stories
Truro, Nova Scotia
"Truro is a hole," scoffed Timothy, a student from Halifax. "Don't go there if you can avoid it." But somehow I ended up in Truro ... More
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Theater Review
Control Freak
Calling your trilogy of plays The Norman Conquests makes it sound like a medieval tryptich or Bayeux Tapestry illustrating the events of 1066: William the Conqueror storming across Hastings, lance ...






