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...year elections are rarely rousing affairs. But along with mayoral elections in cities like Houston, Pittsburgh and San Francisco, plus statehouse contests galore, the results have offered some clues to the larger national mood. How are voters feeling? Tightfisted, slightly libertarian and, above all, tired of corruption...
...resident and native of San Diego County, I have to say that the fires we've experienced this century are a result not of increased population but of Mother Nature at her worst [Nov. 5]. We're very grateful that the loss of life was far less this time than in previous fires. I praise the local authorities for using reverse-911 calls and making sure people were out of harm's way. Nevertheless, there was a lot of property damage, thanks to the Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions. You cannot win against Mother Nature--whether...
Others have gone mobile precisely because they want to cut old ties and obligations. Kevin Ewert, a programmer for his family's Web development company, sees full-timing as a refuge from the pressures of his more conventional existence back in San Jose, Calif. "I was working my life away, and I just got tired of it," says Ewert, 44. He and his wife Angie, 35, have logged about 13,000 miles (21,000 km) in their 40-ft. (12 m) motor home, which has satellite TV, TiVo, three Internet connections, Sirius radio and a private office space where Ewert...
...team says on the site. Also behind the creation of a more conventional online dating site—OkCupid.com—the three Harvard graduates hope to enhance the dating scene at universities like Harvard. CrazyBlindDate—which is focused on Boston, New York, San Fransisco, and Austin—was born when an inspired Coyne called Yagan from a bar in 2002. After five years in the making, over 1,000 people joined the Boston network on the day it was launched. According to Yagan, CrazyBlindDate aims to provide a way for students to spontaneously meet each...
...higher. Two municipalities - Denver, Colorado, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho - passed pro-marijuana measures on election day this week, joining a growing number of liberal localities that are reducing or removing penalties on using pot. It's part of a slowly evolving populist rehabilitation of the drug. San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica in California, along with Missoula, Montana, and Seattle, Washington, have previously passed laws that give the lowest priority to enforcing existing marijuana laws...