January 2009 Archives

A classic debate is brewing in Washington these days is over President Obama's
800-billion dollar stimulus package and whether it should be weighted more heavily toward spending, or tax cuts.

The GOP favors tax cuts while democrats lean toward spending. That's long been the
classic debate!

Tonight on World News with Charles Gibson, reporter Betsy Stark put the issue in fairly simple terms. A little Stimulus Packa...

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No, this is not a political statement!

Shortly after Barack Obama was sworn in as president last week, he grabbed a pen in his
"LEFT" hand and signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay. You also may have watched Senator Obama scribble notes with his left hand during the presidential dabates.

President Obama isn't our only left-handed president. A check of wikipedia shows we have had a number of lefties in the O...

>> Continue reading: Obama; A Leftie!

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If you're a coupon clipper then you probably have certain ones set aside for the days when stores offer triple the value of your coupons. It seems lately that's been happening more and more. I've been trying to be better about my coupon clipping ever since doing the story about the woman who saves her family about $300 a month by doing it. I'm not that good yet but I'm working on it. And I'm not the only one. It's funny I run into the...

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Who knew?

I read an interesting article this morning in the New York Times.

It turns out one of my favorite musical moments from the inauguration of President Barack Obama was more of a Milli Vanilli moment. Not lip-syncing, but close enough.

Yep, the Times reports that beautiful performance of "Air and Simple Gifts" by cellist,
Yo-Yo Ma, violinist, Itzhak Perlman, along with piano and clarinet, had been r...

>> Continue reading: A Magical Musical Moment

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Tonight Kay Yow is in a Raleigh-area hospital receiving treatment for breast cancer, a battle she's faced head on since 1987. And she's announced she'll take the rest of the season off as the head coach of the NC State women's basketball team.

Coach Yow, is one of the winningest coaches ever in women's basketball. She coached the U.S. Olympic team to gold in 1988. And she has roamed the sidelines at NC State for 34-years, nurtur...

>> Continue reading: Some Thoughts about Kay Yow

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President Obama's pick for treasury secretary found himself on the hot seat today before the Senate Finance Committee.

By all accounts, Tim Geithner seems like a bright guy. In fact, I'm sure he is. He worked for the International Monetary Fund during the early 2000's and easily could have made millions in the private sector. So, it doesn't seem all that likely Geithner 'needed' the
34-thousand dollars he failed to pay in social...

>> Continue reading: If he can't figure it out, how can I?

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We've all heard the saying you realize how important something is until you lose it. That's definitely true when it comes to electricity. Last nights storms knocked out electricity to my home and thousands of others around Hampton Roads. I was at work when it happened and my husband called me to give me a heads up... that was around 8pm. I figured when I got home around 11:30 things would be back to normal. I was wrong. I had to call...

>> Continue reading: Life without electricity...

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