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Holiday digest (Rochester Eccentric)
Holiday Digest is a brief look at holiday-related activities and events in the Rochester area. Christmas luncheon The Rochester Symphony Orchestra holds a Christmas luncheon at the Royal Park Hotel at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9. Tickets are $40 and include gourmet lunch, musical entertainment, raffles and a silent auction. For reservations, call (248) 340-9215. Jaycees' shopping tour Volunteers ... Welcome to My World (AdWeek)
Think you know the neatly apportioned media-consumption habits of today's Americans? Consider these snapshots from the country's heartland last month. Joel, 30 years old, spent an entire workday not just with TV, but with radio as well. Thanking our troops, box after box after box ... (Tallahassee Democrat)
You walk into the Centerville Road post office around Thanksgiving to find a dozen testy people in line ahead of you and, holding up the line, a woman with more packages than you care to count. Thanking our troops, box after box after box (WTSP-TV Tampa)
Marsha Morrison's care packages let Florida soldiers know they're not forgotten. To find a newsstand, click here . (Ridgefield Press)
Here are some of the stories appearing in today's Ridgefield Press. Ridgefield's officials and others are providing much help for the 14 victims of Sunday morning's fire at Fox Hill condominiums. More non sequitur arguments from the Christian Right's dogma of duplicity (Online Journal)
The "Yes on 8" campaign in California that, for the time being, succeeded in revoking some citizens' basic civil right to a civil marriage used scare tactics and non sequitur arguments based on misrepresentations, distortions, and deceptions. And they're still at it. Real Estate Live (Washington Post)
Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty and columnist Elizabeth Razzi. O.C. starter home requires $85,800 salary (Orange County Register)
That's half of 2005's level; 43% of O.C. can afford it. 11-18-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
OBAMA'S '60 MINUTES' SCORES BIG: CBS news program had highest overnight ratings in nearly 10 years. *A record audience tuned in to CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday night to watch the first televised interview with Barack Obama and his wife Michelle since he was elected the 44th U.S. President. QUICK TAKES (The Steubenville Herald-Star)
GUIDA APPOINTED: Anthony J. Guida Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Guida of Steubenville, has been appointed to a four-year term on the House Advisory Committee on Student Financial Aid on recommendation of U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.
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