Washington, D.C. – Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis this week released findings that America’s gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022.
Feeling unappreciated, unwanted, or unwelcomed in the post-Covid age? You are not alone. Although this column focuses (mostly) on educational issues, this is not just a school issue.
DEAR ABBY: A few months ago, I offered to help a longtime friend with some landscaping. The area to be landscaped is tiny. I was concerned a professional landscaper would overcharge her. She contacted a landscaper anyway -- not to hire him, but to pick his brain.
DEAR ABBY: I am a newlywed. My husband and I are looking for a house to settle down in, but we’re struggling to find one we like that we can afford. My in-laws, who are moving, offered to sell us their house for a very generous price. The house is in a great neighborhood, but it’s old and outdated and has HVAC and plumbing problems.
“A Walk Around the Sun,” Erika Lewis (Independent) There’s a sense of urgency in the lyrics of “A Walk Around the Sun,” a hidden gem of a country-Americana project by a singer-songwriter known previously as the singer in a brassy French Quarter busker band called Tuba Skinny. It starts to make sense when you know her back story.
Today is the 119th day of 2022 and the 41st day of spring. TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1429, 17-year-old Joan of Arc led French forces in relieving the besieged city of Orleans, France.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Actor Reese Witherspoon and Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry have joined the ownership group of Major League Soccer’s Nashville team ahead of the opening Sunday of Geodis Park, its 30,000-seat stadium.
DEAR ABBY: My wife of 41 years passed away four years ago. I’m in my mid-60s. I have sought grief counseling to fully process her loss. The counselor has encouraged me to maintain and expand my peer relationships. The counselor has also encouraged dating, which I have tried, but no romances have resulted.
For several years, radical liberals have called for mass student loan forgiveness with no indication with what it would do to our country’s economy or how it would affect hardworking Americans. While federal student loan repayments were understandably paused during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, now two years later, Americans have returned to work and should resume paying down their loans. However, President Joe Biden has issued another extension on the repayment pause, yet again showing he is more focused on protecting the interests of the wealthiest and most radical faction of his party instead of policies that would actually help America’s current inflationary crisis.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are expecting our second child. Our first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, so we were overjoyed to find out I was pregnant again, this time with a little girl. We’ve already given her the name “Mandy.”