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| Will Christmas be cancelled?!? |
| Is this going to be a holiday snowmageddon? |
| We here at the Institute for Catchy Extreme-Weather Terminology (ICEWeT) are just over-the-moon excited about this storm. It's like an early Christmas present for us and for the cable and nightly news weather forecasters we serve. |
| What, did you think your local meteorologist came up with "snowmageddon"? Puh-lease. We spent years developing that term in the ICEWeT Lexicon Laboratory, where a team of the world's sharpest linguists and etymologists devote their lives to producing the best possible words to describe extreme weather events that often don't turn out to be all that bad. Read more of Rex's column. |
The child tax credit isn't a frivolous freebie for single parents like me |
| Imagine what it's like to raise three children alone, struggling to make ends meet. To put yourself through school, knowing that despite your best efforts, the jobs you need to provide for your kids require a college degree. |
 | | Karla Garcia with her three children in Tempe, Ariz. | | Provided | |
| Now imagine that you suddenly get a badly needed helping hand to pay the bills, to put gas in the car, to make sure your children have what they need. And that just as quickly, that hand gets yanked away. |
| For me and so many others like me across the country, that's the life we're living every single day. Right now, I'm parenting an 11-year-old, a 4-year-old and my brand new baby boy alone, all while putting myself through college. Read more. |
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