According to the city code of ordinances dealing with animals and fowl, "it shall be unlawful to keep any live swine within the corporate limits of the city. John and Michelle Eaton want to keep their pot-bellied pig, Rooty, despite an ordinance banning such animals inside the city limits. The ordinances and their proponents: NEA Clinic, to vacate and abandon a 60-foot unnamed street right-of-way that connects Matt Drive and Briar Lane (a public hearing on the issue is scheduled for 6:15...

If you re one of those readers who can t resist leaving an impassioned comment under every other Gazette story but find yourself pinched for time in this busy world, let me help. The only people you ever see at those games anyway are those fat, doughnut-eating cops and good ole boys from the county attorney s office who are sitting there on their publicly subsidized arses talking about how to cover up the fact that the Toxic Factory near North Park has already killed 250 people. City...

Yet, maybe most fascinating was that the conference s sponsor, the American Bar Association, actually invited members of the press mostly believers with apparently only one skeptic I might add to address how the views of global warming alarmists need to percolate through the media pipeline and into general public awareness. Yet, maybe most fascinating was that the conference s sponsor, the American Bar Association, actually invited members of the press mostly believers with apparently only...

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A bit after the Gates piece appeared, there was another news story in which Zinni publicly called for more forces in the Baghdad area to stabilize the downward spiral. Merits aside, I suspect we may be looking at a call for more forces in the short term, combined with a regional conference (and possibly an Iraq-only one also) and an economic aid package of some sort aimed at the Sunnis, followed by a recommendation for a significant drawdown or redeployment thereafter, and the...