Last year Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued Executive Directive number 2009-1, which ordered a freeze on auto-insurance rate increases.

Compared to rising unemployment and a healthcare system gone wild, the business of television may seem insignificant to most Americans. But since we own the airwaves from which broadcasters profit, all of us should be concerned by the lack of service most TV stations provide to our communities.

Last week, the Forsyth County Commissioners turned back the clock, and turned the Constitution on its head by voting to appeal the courts ban on sectarian prayer.

I realize that not everyone loves dogs as much as I do, but for the life of me, Ive never understood why someone would buy or adopt a pet then tie him up in the backyard all day. Tethering is abuse, pure and simple, and it looks like officials in one Triad community are finally coming to grips with that fact.

Last week, former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder said that the Obama administration needed an overhaul. In an editorial for Politico.com, Wilder, the nations first elected African-American governor espoused a litany of Obama shortcomings, and suggested ways to correct them.

I have a family connection to lunch counter protests. About 10 years before the Greensboro Four staged their courageous sit-in at Woolworths in Greensboro, my dad was doing something similar at a lunch counter in Winston-Salem.

Most of us dread the arrival of wintry weather, but Frank Deal always thrived on it. Thats because it gave him funny fodder for his cannonade of jokes, such as, How sleet it is, and Be it ever so numble, theres no place like Nome. Here in the Triad, Franks lighthearted approach to weather was appointment television for nearly 30 years.

Ever since the National Enquirer broke the story that John Edwards had a child with his campaign mistress Rielle Hunter, the senator turned presidential candidate spent the better part of two years denying the affair. Confronted with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, however, Edwards finally came clean (if that's possible)

In the decades that followed, millions of Americans have come to rely upon late-night television talk shows to take their minds off of their prevailing troubles in much the same way as they did on movies during World War II. Programs at 11:30 p.m.

No one knows exactly how many people take their own lives each year, but some estimates put the number at over 1 million worldwide. We also have no idea how many people in the last stages of a terminal illness would like to avail themselves of physicianassisted suicide if it were legal, but my guess is that nearly all of them would.