House Ways and Means chair Paul Ryan’s budget proposal drew plaudits from some observers who didn’t notice its fundamental weakness: its utter failure to specify which tax “loopholes” it would close to pay for deficit reduction. …
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Clarence Aaron seemed to be especially deserving of a federal commutation, an immediate release from prison granted by the president of the United States.
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The Galesburg Republican-Register of May 8, 1897, printed a column of menu suggestions and recipes for the next two days which were Sunday and Monday.
The Sunday breakfast consisted of sliced oranges, granola and cream, frizzled beef, corn oysters, baked potatoes, …
Gail W. Hootman Sr., 75, of Galesburg, died at 8:45am Saturday, May 12, 2012 at home.
He was born September 21, 1936 in Athens, Missouri the son of David Benjamin and Clarissa Mae Pickens Hootman. He married Sharon Kay Long in 1959 in …