City residents to decide tax hike - Rutland Herald
The total tax bill on a $150,000 home in the city would rise by more than $400 next fiscal year if all of the spending requests on the Town Meeting Day ballot pass, according to Treasurer Wendy Wilton. At the request of the city aldermen, Wilton

For Pats, Colts-Jets an illustration of needs - Boston Globe
Assuming you can get past any visceral reaction, enjoy this weekend’s AFC Championship Game. Celebrate it. However much it may pain you to watch two of the Patriots’ chief rivals play for the right to go to the Super Bowl, the football gods are

Drug Warriors: Addicted to Myths - YAHOO!
By way of illustration, we recognize compulsive gambling as an addiction. But, as Dr. Gabor Maté points out, we don't blame the addiction on a deck of cards. I have some personal experience with the subject: a flirtation with drug addiction back in

S. Korea eyes demanding Japan's repatriation of books from Joseon - Big Hollywood
Dynasty+ (AP) - SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Kyodo)—South Korea may officially demand that Japan return about 660 books that it took away during its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, officials of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea said

China moves again on lending, economy shows strength - YAHOO!
the one-year benchmark deposit rate of 2.25 percent, Ba Shusong, a prominent government adviser, told Reuters. Consumer prices rose 1.9 percent in the year to December. But in an illustration of the uncertainty surrounding Chinese net new

Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration Opens at the Folger - Washington City Paper
The Folger Shakespeare Library opened a new exhibit this week, Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration , which explores “extra-illustration,” the practice of annotating a text with pictures of people and places who appear in the work