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I have been reading with interest your coverage of the big stimulus package in Congress. There are some really important details in the package and with Washington, D.C., home to those well-heeled lobbyists, we need to make sure we are watching our legislators and making sure they...

President Obama sought bipartisan support for an economic stimulus package by adding nearly one-third trillion dollars in tax cuts and appealing personally to House and Senate Republicans.

I have a few comments regarding the article in your Dec. 1 edition, "Students and teachers nervous about math test." Sorry to tell you, kids, but life is full of math tests. Get over it.

We have been too hard on our President, George W. Bush. There is no pleasure in kicking a dead horse, and this one died a long time ago. His remaining supporters live in a distant universe, dominated by a great intellectual black hole. As we saw in the recent election, Republicans...

For the past 16 years Bethesda Pleasant View has been home for my mother. She lived in Pleasant View Sunrise Village Independent Living for 15 years, then when she needed additional assistance she moved to assisted living. This fall she required more care and physical therapy, and...

We are past Thanksgiving and are now into what some call the holiday season. I have felt the push and heard the loud suggestions that Christians tone down their observance of Christ's birth that we celebrate on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But, we don't have to give up wishing...