(BPT) - Wedding day traditions vary ever so slightly from decade to decade based on music, fashion and cultural change. However, today’s newlyweds have a distinct issue that their parents probably didn’t face a quarter century ago – which sectional couch stays, and which one goes?

“Clean coal” is a fantasy created by mining and power companies to convince us we can keep burning coal forever without harming ourselves, or the environment. The truth is, coal is dirty, harmful stuff. In the short term, we need to install scrubbers to catch coal’s noxious emissions before they make their way out of the smokestack. In the long term, we need to phase out coal-powered energy sources and replace them with cleaner alternatives.

• Apologies to the Scots for my recent comments. My oldest daughter's mother-in-law hails from the Isle of Skye and notes the "compassionate release" of the Lockerbie bomber was just the cover story as admitted by the shabby leaders of the current Brit government. Local Scot officials were used by their English owners to facilitate an oil deal with Libya.

I know this is no time to suggest adding another layer to local governments when revenue sources are drying up, but I’m going to do it anyway. I suggest we create a county-wide, intergovernmental agency called The Department of Free Stuff.

My neighbor and I were visiting a few days ago about how much stuff he had in his garage. There were sagging shelves and bulging doors in every direction. He told me he'd been a "collector" since his childhood. He knew almost exactly where to find anything he, or anyone else, might need.

At the Sanofi-aventis Tucson Research Center in Oro Valley, chemists work with very small quantities of substance, in the sums of milligrams and microns.

In this space a week ago, an attempt was made to illustrate that times gone by never really go away.

They say when you retire, you have to find a hobby.

My historical record confirms that I’m less than handy with most home-related repairs and potentially dangerous when it comes to installing or fixing anything related to landscape drip systems. Despite that, it’s that dry time of year when the plants in our yard require an additional amount of water delivered in an automatically time-controlled manner.

(NAPSI)—If you’re like 25 percent of grill owners, you can expect to host five or more barbecues in the next few months, according to the new Weber Grill Watch Survey. So now may be the right time to brush up on the do’s and don’ts of grilling.

For 20 years and three months, Jo Ann Spencer has taken care of her twin sons, Spencer and Benjamin Smith, feeding them, bathing them, changing their clothes and bedding, nurturing their minds and spirits, loving them, with never a question of her devotion, nor a complaint about her circumstance.

Hello readers, fellow dieters, and fellow contestants!

Hello, Tucson, Jesse Morales here, not much to mention other than I feel like a steam roller just ran me over. I told Tim (my trainer), to push me, and guess what? He did.

(BPT) - It’s time to make your home’s exterior shine with some added summer curb appeal. You can quickly do the easy stuff – wash your windows, plant annuals, install pathway lights – to spruce things up. But you should also consider those projects you’ve been avoiding.

The students in Niki Tilicki’s fourth-grade class at Wilson K-8 School had the opportunity to talk to and hear from Paralympic Athlete Chad Cohn.

(NAPSI)—Over the course of a school year, students collect more than information—they also collect a lot of stuff. Fortunately, getting all that stuff home at the end of the semester doesn’t have to be difficult. To help, here are a few tips from the pros that know at Penske Truck Rental:

Earlier this month, the Marana Unified School District governing board hired Doug Wilson, a school administrator from Colorado, as the district’s next superintendent.

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Feb. 23, 2005 - Students at Painted Sky Elementary School are shaving their heads, swimming in cold pools and hanging upside down, all in the name of science.