By SCOTT BAUER ASHWAUBENON, Wis. (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s defense spending cuts “breed weakness” and that the United States can’t afford that posture following the killings of four Americans in Libya. His comments at a town hall meeting Wednesday near Green Bay came after a [...]
By CALVIN WOODWARD COLUMBUS (AP) — He’s 30, between jobs, with $50,000 in student debt and no clear sense what the future holds. But Erik Santamaria, Ohio-born son of Salvadorans, has a pretty awesome attitude about his country, his life and the world of possibilities. “Maybe things won’t work out the way I want,” he [...]
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Whoever wrote those words must have been deaf. Seriously? I have been on the receiving end of some pretty harsh words in my life time and sometimes…words hurt. We have all been hurt by words at some time in our lives. In [...]
Days like this, said Doc, a guy has to get out and get his yard work done early, before it gets too hot. “So when does it get too hot for you, Doc?” “Oh, about three o’clock in the morning. Makes it a toss-up. Do you get up early without the benefit of coffee and [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer Two Madison-Plains science teachers were selected to participate in a nationwide research project for the 2012-2013 school year. Sara Ellenberger and Michele Hildebrandt, both high school science teachers, were among 44 teachers nationwide chosen to be a part of “From Learning to Research.” The announcement was made earlier this [...]
When the world is hot and my skin is fried, scratching from the constant dry, let the clouds boil up, boil up high, and then shade the earth with the darkening sky and bring the secrets and the smell of rain. The coolness and the blessed rain, again. Our land is brown but blessed, stressed [...]
Did you know how many different grays there are and the great variety of ways to mix them? At the Madison County Senior Center we have been working on midday skies and gray is an important color for the underside of a cloud. It is what gives it definition and volume. The standard way of [...]
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Marvin Hamlisch was blessed with perfect pitch and an infallible ear. “I heard sounds that other children didn’t hear,” he wrote in his autobiography. He turned that skill into writing and arranging compulsively memorable songs that the world was unable to stop humming — from the mournful “The [...]
