3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (508+ words) The folly of building in high-risk areas While Santa Rosa clearly needs more affordable housing, a basic urban planning premise is that new housing be directed to inner city areas, near public transit and other services — not to outlying areas…...

2+ day, 29+ min ago   (728+ words) “I don’t really like the way he looks,” Trump told the laughing crowd in Paxton’s home state of Texas. But never mind that because “he was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate....

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (617+ words) On Thursday, the final night of Republicans’ unusual midterm convention, Trump said he would speak for just a few minutes. Instead he held court for a half hour, repeating many of the points he made in a nearly two-hour speech…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (87+ words) Wholesale prices moved higher last month in latest sign of stubborn inflation The Press Democrat By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer The Labor Department’s producer price index — which captures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 5.4% in August from a year…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (477+ words) Editor: Please stop referring to oil extraction as oil production. Oil production took immense geological forces acting on vast tracts of decomposed plants and animals over millions of years. Oil companies don’t produce oil any more than obstetricians produce babies....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (564+ words) However, it’s a different story in the fantastical vision that he shares with supporters on social media. Over Labor Day weekend, Trump and the White House unleashed an extraordinarily heavy torrent of memes that portrayed the president as singularly powerful....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (737+ words) By HOLLY RAMER and KATHY McCORMACK Sununu, a former U.S. senator, and Pappas, a member of the U.S. House, are vying to replace U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, whose decision to not seek reelection created a cascade of competitive races. Both entered their respective…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (612+ words) The event at the Ellipse was spearheaded by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and showcased a massive, 21-foot, nearly 17,000-pound steel beam recovered from the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, which had traveled for months…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (712+ words) Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said that the U.K. will ban imports of all goods from the settlements, and some services including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate and advertising for settlements. He said that France and Canada would also ban trade in…...