by Kevin Burton It is garage sale season in my hometown. The new-to-you possibilities are fun to think of. But one company has taken this concept beyond fun to sublime. What if the furniture that is a little too old to live up to the image that major companies seek to project, …
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Cruise Ship Tourism Threatens Alaska’s Capital
by Christian Karim Chrobog The Guardian “The noise never stops,” says Karla Hart, her voice competing with the hum of approaching helicopters. “I can feel them before I see them.” She looks at her phone to check a website that monitors air traffic and identifies operators. Hart wants to know whether the pilots are adhering …
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Love To You Who Are Grieving On Christmas
by Kevin Burton It’s deeply upsetting to me that my mother was in a hospital, alone on Christmas Eve, in what could easily be her last Christmas season. There isn’t a phone in her room and I don’t believe she grabbed her cell phone for an emergency trip to ER Monday night. So …
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Black Florida Neighborhood Resists Annexation
By Raisa Habersham Miami Herald More than a year after efforts to annex parts of Brownsville into Hialeah failed, the historically Black community and three other neighborhoods are taking steps to become a city. Brownsville Civic Association president Kenneth Kilpatrick said the Hialeah annexation was a “wake up call” for residents living in …
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