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Efficient light bulbs need care upon disposal
(Editorial ~ 03/22/08)
More proof that there are two sides to every story -- this time it is those compact florescent light bulbs we're all being encouraged to switch to, and with good reason. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, if every American homes replaced a conventional light bulb with a qualified CFL lamb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, reduce annual energy costs by more than $600 million and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to more than 800,000 cars...
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Drill for oil in Norris Park?
(Column ~ 03/22/08)
Thanks to copious amounts of rain, in Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska, we elected to stay a couple extra days in Tulsa with our daughter Moira and family. Ann is getting into this new schedule of a retired kind of lifestyle. I hope that we don't wear out our welcome...
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Nattering nabobs of negativism
(Column ~ 03/22/08)
The title of today's column is a phrase coined by William Safire and given to Vice-President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon Administration to describe the press; the idea being that the press always looks at the negative and never at the positive. We continue to hear those same criticisms today, thirty five years later. Only today, it not only applies to journalists but to politicians as well...
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