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Every year, it’s the last, but certainly not the least. We’re talking county fair time once again. And this final one is the San Benito County Fair at the Bolado Park Fairgrounds, just south of Hollister.

TO LOSE weight in a healthy way, embrace fats. That’s right, eating fats does not make you fat. In the last couple of years, research has proven that eating a diet with heart-healthy fats—the fat found in avocados, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, canola oil, ground flaxseed and nuts, for instance—is significantly more likely to lead to long-term weight loss compared to a low-fat approach.

Not too long ago, inflation was low enough to spur concerns

Each new year, we resolve to lose weight, exercise more, or make some other pledge of self-improvement that usually withers and dies before January is gone. But sometimes, if the challenge has enough allure, and if we do it with the support and companionship of friends, we might follow through and maybe even come away with a lifelong memory.

With Christmas just a few days away and New Year’s just around the corner, many folks are feeling overwhelmed from overindulging, overspending and just flat out overdoing. Taking a lesson from the Christmas cactus, perhaps we can gain a little perspective and take some of the edge off.

During the 2008 presidential election, Americans heard the chant

In his State of the Union address to Congress, the very Democratic President Obama made good use of a thought from the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. As he transitioned from talking about education to an outline of his plans for energy and the environment, Obama said that "Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more."

While sight-seeing in Monterey recently, I happened to visit

This may be a great time to get into a REIT. If you're trying to

From the moment it was created as part of the 1974 Proposition 9 political reform initiative, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission has operated on the presumption that politicians and their most active campaign aides and backers should never be fully trusted.