There goes the 2022 elections if such a scheme passes. This is going to disproportionately hit lower income people who have to commute long distances and where there is little or no public transportation.
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I can't argue with this legislative proposal.
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Obituary: Noted novelist Larry McMurtry, 84, author of books Lonesome Dove, Brokeback Mountain, and The Last Picture Show, has died. Lots of his books were made into TV miniseries or motion pictures.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, McMurtry drew heavy inspiration for his novels from his time growing up on a ranch.
He was 25 when he wrote his first novel, “Horseman, Pass by,” which examined the changing values in the West after World War II. The book inspired the film “Hud” starring Paul Newman two years later.
His epic 1985 novel, "Lonesome Dove," which focused on a cattle drive from Texas to the Great Plains, was later adapted into a popular television miniseries that starred actors Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover and Diane Lane.
The four-part television series earned many accolades, including 18 Emmy nominations and seven wins.
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Another obituary: Famous children's author Beverly Cleary, a mere 104, died yesterday at her home in Carmel, California. Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon. She wrote many, many, many children's books, often about the character Ramona Quimby. Her book, Dear Mr. Henshaw, won the prestigious Newbery Award.
Snip from the press release:
Born on April 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Oregon, Beverly Bunn spent her early years on the family farm in Yamhill. Her mother set up a library for the small town in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. There young Beverly learned to love books. However, when her family moved to Portland, she found herself in the grammar school’s low reading circle, an experience that gave her a lifelong sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.
As she recounts in her autobiography A Girl from Yamhill, she had a breakthrough one rainy Sunday afternoon:
The outside world drizzled, the inside world was heavy with the smell of pot roast and my father’s Sunday after-dinner cigar, and I was so bored I picked up The Dutch Twins to look at the pictures. Suddenly I was reading and enjoying what I read! It was a miracle. I was happy in a way I had not been happy since starting school.
By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood with books from the public library. A teacher suggested that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up, and the idea appealed to her. But after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley (where a dormitory is named in her honor) she specialized in librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle (which today honors her contribution to Northwest literature with the Beverly Cleary Endowed Chair for Children and Youth Services).
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Add Tennessee to the growing list of states seeking to keep women's and girls' sports for women and girls only.
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Another very old cold case has been solved thanks to genetic genealogy.
Snip:
James Herman Dye, who has a multistate criminal history, was arrested in Witchita, Kansas in connection with the death of 29-year-old Evelyn Kay Day. Her murder was one of the county's oldest cold cases.
Multiple other family members said they believed that Dye, now 64, was capable of murder, the affidavit says. He's now being held in Kansas awaiting extradition on two counts of first-degree murder. Each count is related to a different theory about how Day was killed.
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