Spots at Yosemite's High Sierra Camps don't come easy There's a California lottery you've probably never heard of. And what's surprising is that those who win get to pay money instead of receive it - and they're thrilled! (1546 views)
How to Waste Money So, it's time once again for me to file my taxes. Confused? Don't be. I'm a late filer, which means I'm taking advantage of the Oct. 15 deadline for 2005 federal and state returns. (16 views)
Convention of the first National Council of Nonprofit Associations The Nonprofit Congress, that is. (15 views)
Flaunting the First Amendment WASHINGTON - A long time ago, in a place far away, a free-spirited schoolboy attempted to exercise his rights of free speech. Informed that he had none, and rudely rebuffed for his effort, the impetuous lad grew up to become a newspaperman. (14 views)
Go topless: Saab 9-3 provides top-drawer comforts for top-down ride Be an environmentalist; drive a convertible. (165 views)
Miami Vices: A culinary tour MIAMI - The day I flew into Miami, Fidel Castro had ceded power to his brother and all of Little Havana was dancing in the streets, celebrating news they had waited to hear for 47 years. Since Castro took control in 1959, nearly a million Cubans have left their native land, most settling in Miami, where they wait for the Old Country to welcome them home. (28 views)
American Patriotism Five Years After 9/11 In the days and weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, American patriotism and attendance in the country's houses of worship swelled. Car windows and front porches were festooned with flags, while the pews were packed with bodies. (161 views)
The case of should airlines ask for a passengers identity or not? Under which law? On the Fourth of July in 2002, John Gilmore set out to fly from the West Coast to Washington, D.C. As things turned out, he never made the trip, mainly because the airline security folks wouldn't let him board a plane. He hasn't flown commercially from that day to this. (17 views)
The Hug Shirt This just in: Hugs are great! Hugs are everywhere, and all living things need them. (162 views)
Magnum SRT8's only drawback is temptation to speed I like a tight deadline, 'specially the one when the appliance repairman calls my cell phone to say he can be at my house in 15 minutes and I know I'm 20 minutes out. (121 views)
From rail to Renoir: A scenic train trek through Switzerland The train swept through a postcard-perfect landscape of snowcapped mountains towering above emerald green hillsides threaded by dramatic cascades, all reflected in a crystalline lakeside. I was relaxing on a two-hour scenic rail journey from Zurich to Bern, the Swiss capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site, with its 12th century preserved houses, monuments and museums. (177 views)
Girl Talk 101 Forget investing clubs, ladies. Who wants to spend a perfectly good evening with friends doing math? I have a better idea. Let's get together and gossip ... about money! (7 views)
Psychological Wounds Mark Twin Anniversaries Who knows which of the five stages of grief New Orleans residents were in on August 29, 2006, the anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of their beloved city? Jazz trumpeter Marlon Jordan, who waited for five days to be rescued from the roof of his house in the 8th Ward last year, led an anniversary procession reminiscent... (8 views)
September 9 2006 Legal Blog Roundup I hope all of my readers know that they can't trust anything said on the Internet. Cue the long and not very funny routine about whether that means you can't trust me. But of course you know all that - you're lawyers. (101 views)
Too much dependencey on electronic documentation in legal cases creates a mess Starting Dec. 1, in-house counsel will have to contend with the new e-discovery procedural rules detailed in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (33 views)
Charity, and the law for establishing a religion as per the First Amendment George W. Bush took the presidential oath on that January day in 2001, came home from the Hill, and promptly issued Executive Order No. 13,199. Thus he created, overnight, the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. (3 views)
New Scrambler's retro look belies a host of modern improvements Because Harley-Davidson's Sportster is considered such a fabled model from motorcycling's past, it's difficult sometimes for people to remember the Sportster was originally a knock-off of the Triumph Bonneville. (41 views)
Jules Verne's epic journey began in Iceland's frozen volcano Harry Hardwigg got to Iceland's Snaefellsnes peninsula almost 150 years before I did. His narrative reports: ''At 6 o'clock in the evening, we reached Budir, a small town picturesquely situated on the shore of the ocean.'' (174 views)
September 2 2006 Legal Blog Roundup Your buzzword for this week, readers, is ''astroturfing.'' You know that fake too-bright green grass called AstroTurf? You know how spontaneous, non-corporate/government sponsored movements are referred to as ''grassroots?'' What do you call it when there's a formal public relations movement meant to simulate grassroots behavior? (9 views)
Consumer credit counseling agency can help you plan your credit, housing tips, budget and more America's gotten a lot savvier about credit. Now that we can take a free, no-strings-attached gander at our credit reports every year (courtesy of www.annualcreditreport.com), we're more cognizant of the impact bad credit has on our everyday lives. (26 views)
The Case of Providing Shelter to the Homeless and its Adverse Repurcussions The church views its overnight guests as God's children, fallen upon hard times. The city sees them as a bunch of bums who hang around all night and frighten the tourists away. (12 views)
AT&T takes on cable rivals with its Homezone service The much-hyped digital living room in which electronic devices communicate with each other wirelessly has taken one more step toward becoming a reality. (105 views)
Mercedes GL450 SUV a tad too serious to be fun The American-bred sport utility vehicle is a constant frustration to the import imitators.Those brands - the Europeans mostly - tend to take carmaking seriously and want to overthink and overengineer their versions of the SUV. (750 views)
The Smokies' well-known haze won't faze fall-foliage fans If you guessed that Yellowstone is the nation's most-visited national park, you'd be mistaken. Yellowstone was the first and has high name recognition, but the Smokies win the competition. (181 views)
Claim in mail rebates as per Federal Trade Commission During back-to-school shopping season, your newspaper is stuffed with sales circulars promising ''The lowest prices of the season!'' and ''Best prices all year round!'' But many of those bargains aren't in the form of price reductions; instead, they're marked with an asterisk and the eensy-weensy tag-line, ''after mail-in rebate.'' (12 views)
Top-notch Jaguar: Smooth-running convertible looks great coming, going Jaguar designer Ian Callum faced a dilemma when planning the XK convertible. It could have had a retractable hardtop, creating a coupe and a convertible - two cars in one. (21 views)
Fall foliage paints upstate New York and Canada's Niagara region As the helicopter lifted off the ground, my initial fears were allayed almost instantly. My eyes were transfixed on a lush landscape of crimson, scarlet and blazing gold cushioning the cascading waterfalls and rushing rapids of Niagara. I literally had a birds-eye view of Niagara Falls and the vibrant fall foliage along Lake Ontario to Lake Erie. (130 views)
Couples, Sex, and Money Let's face it: Most couples do not enjoy talking about budgeting or saving. It's not great party conversation, animated water cooler talk, or even the controversial stuff that makes for a good joke. It is decidedly unsexy. (566 views)
Inside Legal B logs With the departure of my predecessor, Jeff, the Powers That Be at LawCrossing had a difficult choice to make. Law reviews are citing legal blogs, law professors use blogs to instruct, and an ever-growing number of attorneys find the blawg format to be a useful and flexible tool for discussion and debate. (And slagging off on their fellow counselors and whatever political... (7 views)