Remembering how mom stood by her children
CONWELL'S COMMENT
Kent Conwell
      I'm sure you won't be surprised to know there's over a dozen theories of the origin of Mother's Day. They range from the ancient Greece festival of Cybete to Anna Jarvis of West Virginia after the Civil War. While the origins of most memorial days, Mother's Day included, are usually murky, it is ...
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Spurring domestic production
CAPITOL COMMENT
Kay Bailey Hutchison
      The Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin, has summed up what many of us are thinking: "We are living in a new age of energy anxiety." No one feels this anxiety more than the American families who are shouldering the burden of nearly $...
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Thermostat war at the office rages between hot and cold
LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE
Jamie Bollich
      Does the thermostat setting at your home or workplace provoke endless conflict? Is there always at least one aggrieved person who never seems comfortable? A typical conversation at my job these days is very predictable. Two people say they are too cold. One person says he is too hot, and the o...
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Will an election year affect investors?
FINANCIAL FOCUS
Debbie Spittler
      As you are no doubt aware, 2008 is a presidential election year. As a citizen, you may well have a great deal of interest in the election. But how about as an investor? How does an election year affect the investment climate? And again from the perspective of an investor does it matter who wins?
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