Dust Kill

City's poor leadership hurts homeless facilities
THE LATEST dust-up over an attempt to open a facility that would serve the homeless in Columbia is a result of City Council's continued failure to lead.

Running Dog Bites Dust
Thanks to a sneaky, underhanded, duplicitous, and utterly cowardly maneuver the Democrats have just unveiled—dubiously dubbed “deem and pass”—we might actually witness an honest-to-god vote on health insurance reform within our lifetime.

Can Catholic Church overcome child abuse scandals?
Pope Benedict has written a letter to the Catholics of Ireland. What is your reaction?

Allergy suffers prepare to suffer
Rain brings abundance of pollen, causing what may be worst spring for allergy sufferers in years

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Assisted suicide is still illegal in most of the United States.

Allergy sufferers, start your engines
Get ready for a really bad spring for allergies — the worst in years. This week, allergy victims are sniffing and sneezing, itching and wheezing their way into already crowded clinics across the Bay Area.

Decades-old socialite slaying in L.A. makes its way to court
Patricia Galea, the daughter-in-law of a well-known Australian racehorse owner, was fatally shot in 1974. Two suspects at the time have now been charged with murder. On a spring night in 1974, three masked men wielding knives and guns and looking for cash burst into the West Hollywood hillside apartment of a young Australian socialite.

Activists urge alternative to spraying along power lines
The opposition to the use of herbicides isn’t confined to public officials concerned about their watersheds. Since last summer individuals have banded together to implore everyone from selectmen, to state senators to halt the plan.

Spring allergy season is here, already miserable, will get - ah-choo! - worse
Get ready for a really bad spring for allergies — the worst in years. This week, allergy victims are sniffing and sneezing, itching and wheezing their way into already crowded clinics.

Spring allergy season is here, already miserable, will get - ah-choo! - worse
Thanks to the heaviest rains in three years, lots of thirsty trees '“ junipers, cedars, cypresses, and redwoods '“ got quenched and produced a motherlode of pollen.But now, as the rains abate and temperatures rise, rampaging waves of pollen are catching rides on the wind and rolling out like flotillas of misery. Soon April will generate more pollen from oaks and olive trees. Then May peaks the ...