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• Austin residents return to wildfire-scorched homes

  Sun Apr 17, 2011
  • I guess this nameless homeless man will now at least have a number and a place to live. Steve

• Medicaid to reward recipients for healthy habits

  Mon Apr 11, 2011
  • Government never changes, always throwing money at problems. We all know there are those who will lie cheat and steal to filtch any incentive money offered. How about those of us who are already healthy? Are we penalized for being healthy?

• U.S. looks for way to prosecute over leaks

  Mon Nov 29, 2010
  • I am just curious, why are not the communications between embassies and diplomats not crypted? Why would they want their conversations to be read by anyone able to get a copy of the text? Seems someone isn't thinking . Steve

• New Zealand mine rescuers to drill hole to test for gas

  Sat Nov 20, 2010
  •  I also worked, for nearly thirty years, in the coal mines. There is little chance anyone survived the blast, given past experiances. But there is always hope until the bodies have been recovered or worse the mine is sealed up with the men entombed inside.

• What should be the minimum age to hunt without adult supervision?

  Tue Jul 21, 2009
  • When I was a boy growing up in West Virginia, hunting like swimming, was something you learned very early. Because it was learned early it was something that became a second nature.

• Paper apologizes, to some, over Obama cartoon

  Thu Feb 19, 2009
  • If anyone should be offended. It should be the owner of the chimp that was killed. It was a beloved pet and I am sure she is saddened by the death of her friend. Then to see it characterized in this cartoon without reguard to her feelings is just bad manners.

• Hoping and believing don't prove God exists

  Mon Mar 10, 2008
  • Little stirs up emotion as the subjects of religion and politics. It's always a sure bet that there are plenty of others wishing to express their opinion or view of either matter. As I read the comments made by the contributors to this discussion I find nothing really new.

• Ahmadinejad: US Power Crippling in Iraq

  Mon Mar 3, 2008
  • No surprise here. I wonder if he's available for campaigning for Hillary and Obama.

• US Military Kills al-Qaida Leader

  Sun Mar 2, 2008
  • I am a Viet Nam veteran, and always a supporter of our military men and women, I see so very many parralles between this war and mine. Different yes but the same on the soldier, on the ground or in the air.

• US Orders Some Diplomats to Leave Serbia

  Fri Feb 22, 2008
  • I have mixed feelings about the Serbian situation. From the viewpoint of history the United States fought a terrible civil war over the secesion of the Confederate States Of America.