Wife Threatens to Spill Poisonous Secret in Divorce
DEAR ABBY: I am 45 and currently going through a divorce. My soon-to-be ex-wife and I have a 14-year-old daughter, “Gina,” and I have custody. Fourteen years ago, when my wife became pregnant with Gina, we had talked about abortion. We even had an appointment scheduled, but on the day of the appointment we decided [...]
High Court is a Quirky Bunch
It’s often said we spend more time with the people we work with than we do with the people we love. Not that we don’t love the people we work with, but they’re not family. (Some would say that’s a good thing, but that’s another column.) So when I watched President Obama nominate Sonia Sotomayor [...]
Poll: Public Concerned About Gosselin Kids
Whatever they think of Jon and Kate, Americans are concerned about the future of the “plus 8″ part of the equation. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows nearly half (48 percent) think the eight Gosselin children, co-stars of TLC’s highly watched and highly controversial “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” will be worse off for having taken [...]
Wednesday’s Top TV Picks
CBS’s “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (8 p.m. ET/PT) repeats one of its funnier episodes, as a talent scout spots Ritchie in a school play and offers him a commercial audition. Richard’s opposed and Ritchie doesn’t want to do it, which should be the end of it — but of course, isn’t. “I was [...]
Chinese Firm to Buy Hummer
A Chinese manufacturing company is poised to take over General Motors’ Hummer brand, the two companies said Tuesday, marking the first foray by a Chinese company into the U.S. auto market. Chinese automakers have indicated for several years that they’d like to find some way to sell cars here, but until now, haven’t managed to [...]
What the Little Birdies are Tweeting
Tweets deliver what you can’t find anywhere else. This tweet from ESPN’s Mike Tirico isn’t a take you’d hear on-air: “I got a new electric toothbrush and I’m in heaven. There’s nothing like it.” At least on Earth. A Nielsen report released Tuesday says Twitter, a micro-blogging service that limits entries to 140 characters, is [...]
Some Highlights from FSCJ’s First Annual Budget
The first budget of Florida State College at Jacksonville now has a budget to match their new name, which becomes official on August 1, 2009, when legislation identifying the College as a state college goes into effect. The College’s first state college budget absorbs an $8 million reduction of recurring state funding for the 2009-2010 [...]
Tryin’ to Reason With Hurricane Season
Who says we don’t have seasons in Florida? Of course we do. Winter, Spring (which fell on a Tuesday and Wednesday this year … not consecutive)Tourist, Fire, and Hurricane. This year, fire season may be a bit less severe because of the 10 days of rain that dumped a goodly portion of the Atlantic Ocean [...]
Crist Signs Bill to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Gov. Charlie Crist quietly signed legislation Monday that throws a life line to unemployed Floridians, making up to 20 weeks of extra benefits available, but increases taxes on business. It is the second tax increase that Crist has signed into law this year, with the first being a cigarette tax hike of $1 per pack. [...]
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