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On Jan. 14, the National Park Service announced that Yosemite's iconic Ahwahnee Hotel will become the Majestic Yosemite Hotel on March 1. A news release explained that because of a trademark dispute with outgoing concessionaire Delaware North of Buffalo, N.Y., the Wawona Hotel will become Big Trees Lodge and Curry Village will become Half Dome Village. People readily saw a case of corporate greed. At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum posted a blog with a photo of company executives and the heading: "Meet the corporate suits who claim to own the trademark to 'Yosemite National Park.'"
January 29, 2016
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Debra Saunders
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First, the facts. Since 2000, 10 percent of Oscar nominations have gone to black actors. Blacks comprise 13 percent of the country's population, so the Oscar nominations have roughly paralleled the percentage of blacks in the U.S.
January 28, 2016
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Two years ago, Thumbtack - a startup that connects consumers with local contractors -conducted a survey to see what they thought of proposals to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10, as per President Obama's bid "to give America a raise." The survey found that that a plurality of the small businesses that used Thumbtack thought a wage hike would be good for the economy. Most thought that a minimum-wage increase would have no effect on their hiring or firing decisions. But what happens if Washington passes Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders' proposal to more than ...
January 27, 2016
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Debra Saunders
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The wheels of justice which often grinds exceedingly slow is finally coming to its conclusion for the Lum family of Lathrop.
January 25, 2016
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ROSE ALBANO RISSO
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The problem with applying conventional wisdom to political campaigns is that it can suddenly be upended by an unconventional campaign.
January 25, 2016
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JIM HIGHTOWER
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DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband's recent lab work showed that he had a glucose reading of 72 (82-115 is considered a healthy range). Is this a precursor to diabetes? Should he be staying away from refined sugar? His father had diabetes and had his leg amputated. I do not want this to happen to my husband. Please let me know if there is anything we can do to keep him in good health. -- D.H.
January 24, 2016
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DEAR DIDI: Do dogs feel guilty for things they have done? Our boy sure looks like he KNOWS he has done something wrong when we get home from work. -Shepherd Parents
January 24, 2016
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Didi McElroy
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Since 2015 is over, is it safe to come out now?
January 23, 2016
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As Republicans prepare to cast their first presidential ballots in Iowa and New Hampshire, the field remains dominated by "outsider" candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, while establishment favorites Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Marco Rubio have been unable to advance to the finals. Will the Republican kingmakers and consultants who picked every nominee since Reagan step aside to let the grassroots, also known as the "base," work its will this year?
January 22, 2016
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Let us now praise "Lord Zuckerberg, The Magnificent!"
January 22, 2016
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Fighting off the temptation to fall asleep during the most recent Democratic - and Donald Trump-less -debate, I wrote these thoughts, observations and questions I hoped would be asked but were not. I end with my opinion about who won the debate - and who lost. No fair cheating and going right to the end.
January 21, 2016
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Larry Elder
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Now that it's already been phased out, the world can agree that a chemical used in Teflon - the famous coating on nonstick pots and pans - was toxic.
January 20, 2016
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JILL RICHARDSON
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I'm a 62-year-old male in generally good physical and mental health. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 21. I had bowel resection surgery, but have no debilitating symptoms now, except some diarrhea flare-ups.
January 19, 2016
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Keith Roach, M.D.
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Is the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, a RINO - a revolutionary in name only?
January 19, 2016
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When David Bowie died after a very private fight with liver cancer, obituary writers churned out words like "icon" and "legend" and "subversive." Despite a life of very fluid explorations of musicality and sexuality and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano celebrated Bowie as "never banal," displaying an "artistic rigor" which seemed to contradict the sexually "ambiguous image" he presented to "attract the attention of the media."
January 18, 2016
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L. BRENT BOZELL III
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