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A promise is a promise

By Craig Green , Session Weekly

When Northwest Airlines was in financial trouble, the Metropolitan Airports Commission and the state helped the airline make it through. The airline kept going; the state got a promise of jobs.

But now that the airline is close to a merger — a deal that would dramatically change its presence in the state — everything is not so clear. MORE »

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Drinking Mississippi mud

By Mark Twain

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »