Month: February 2015

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Gallup CEO: 5.6% Unemployment is ‘The Big Lie’

Click here: Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
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‘Selfies’ turn deadly in Colorado

Taking ‘Selfies’ May Have Played Role In Fatal Plane Crash

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Obituaries this week

Eleanor Jeanne Kindig, 91, Burlington, died Sunday, February 1, 2015

Sharon Lynn Snider, 64, West Burlington died Saturday, January 31, 2015

Warren L. Mehmken, 79, Sperry, died Saturday, January 31, 2015

C.R. “Chick” Murphy, 88, died January 27, 2015 in Roswell, New Mexico

Alice Louise Anderson, 85, died Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Candy Lynn Almendinger, 56, Burlington, died Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Robert “Bob” P. Ensminger, 87, Middletown, died Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Ralph “Buck” Lee Hanson, 83, Washington, Pennsylvania died Monday, February 2, 2015

Arlene Mae Fisher Huston, 92, Burlington died Thursday, February 5, 2015

Alicia May Schaefer, 89, Burlington, died Thursday, February 5, 2015

Delbert Edward Laue, 96, Burlington, died Saturday, February 7, 2015