WESTMINSTER WEST — If you are about to toss an apple core or a banana peel out your car window, please take care to toss it a good distance from the edge of the road.
The discovery of such a find might be a welcome thing for a foraging rodent or bird. But if it's too close to the road, it can put the feasting creature at risk from passing vehicles.
Throw it far!
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Within a mere few pages of his debut novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins of Guilford sets the stage for his heroine, Rae Kelliher, to carry out a well-planned murder/suicide. Kelliher sacrifices herself to a cause, taking out an oil baron for his role in delaying responses to climate change. Complicating the aftermath, two of the CEO's children are killed in the process. In Altar, a work of near-future eco fiction, Collins welcomes us into a world where...
As I checked the news just before sitting down to write this letter on behalf of Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, I learned that the Republican State Leadership Committee, funded by big pharma, the Koch brothers, the National Rifle Association, and many others, has begun dropping $186,000 into television ads attacking Zuckerman, Senate Pro Tem Tim Ashe, and Speaker Mitzi Johnson. A short while back, the National Association of Realtors approved a contribution of $54,000 from the organization's political action committee...
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