National budget for 11.15.07
GateHouse News Service National Budget For 11/15/07 editions
Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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Lifestyles (Thursday is Home & Garden)
HOME HELP: Weekly Home & Garden rail. Today leads with tips to keep mice out of your house or garage. In / home & garden
NOTHING BEATS COMPOST: It's great fertilizer, it's recycling and it's free. PEORIA / in / home & garden http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/home_and_garden/x676138517
ART: pics
HOME THEATER: Planning, technology key to plugging in home theater. CHICAGO SUBURBAN / in / home & garden http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/home_and_garden/x1375681768
DO IT YOURSELF FIREPLACE CLEANING: (short) Clean chimney before starting a fire. ROCKFORD / in / home & garden
ART: pic
GREENSPACE COLUMN: By Jim Hillibish, this week: Plant's to freeze to death, they dry up. CANTON / in / home & garden columns
Opinions
EDITORIAL ON U.S. CREDIBILITY: Six years after initiating the "war on terror," the United States now finds itself caught in a twin struggle: the war for credibility. SPRINGFIELD / in / opinion
BRITT CARTOON ON HILLARY: Hillary Clinton and news conference question planting. SPRINGFIELD / in / opinions, cartoons
ELIZABETH DAVIES COLUMN: For the sake of "Lost" get the writers back on the payroll. ROCKFORD / in / columns, davies
PETER CHIANCA COLUMN: Is it me, or does the casting of Winona Ryder in the new "Star Trek" movie - in Jane Wyatt's old role as Spock's mother - smack of franchise reboot desperation? It's sort of like when they were trying to come up with an idea for a fourth "Alien" movie and hired … Winona Ryder. All we're missing is Jennifer Love Hewitt as a Tribble. CNC / in / opinions
ART: pic of Winona Ryder and column mug
Sports
NASCAR: The Chase is almost over. Today we moved three stories:
- Rail
NADEL COLUMN: Bears and NFL. Coming this evening.
News
Cambridge boots Scouts over 'pro-war' message - Was it just too pro-war for Cambridge? A troop of Boy Scouts is wondering why their donation boxes meant for troops in Iraq were thrown out of polling stations last week.
Cambridge, Dunning, 15 inches, on wire now
With column by a troop leader
Soccer coach takes stand against 'dangerous' 400-pound soccer goals - Dispute leads to suspension. About 83 people in the United States and Canada have died or suffered serious injuries caused by a falling soccer goal since 1979, according to the Illinois-based non-profit group Anchored for Safety.
MetroWest, Hilliard, 22 inches, on wire now
With photo
Not your mother's Tupperware party: Forget jewelry and cookware, pole dancing for fun is the latest in home party trends - So popular are the parties that Burns is already booking into February. A party host since January, Burns said years of associating poles with strippers can leave women reluctant to try. But, she adds, it's often the shyest who get the most wild.
Ledger, McKee, 25 inches, on wire now
With photos