We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
From Gordon Smith
On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
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