Thankshopping Day? Holiday becomes retail battleground

Thanksgiving is slowly becoming just another shopping day. Over the past few years, major retailers, including Target and Toys R Us, slowly have pushed opening times into Thanksgiving night to one-up each other and compete for holiday dollars.

 
4 ways an American-US Airways merger could impact you

American Airlines and US Airways have cleared the last major hurdle to merging, but it will be several months — if not years — before passengers see any significant impact.

Home-baked business opens catering event facility

Growing up watching people such as Martha Stewart, Brittney Melnick knew she wanted to become a caterer. Years later, not only is she seeing her dreams come true with her company, B With A Twist, she is using her business to cater to the needs of various nonprofits.

Yosemite offers festive holiday flair with fewer crowds

Whether it’s to escape the holiday madness or to start a new holiday tradition, visiting one of our national parks over the next couple of months is an excellent getaway. One that provides lots of options to get outdoors and sooth the soul, yet also offers a festive holiday flair, is Yosemite National Park, Calif.

For local daredevil, it all hurts so good

Saturday night in the Searchlight desert, crazy motorcyclists zigzagged around each other inside the “Globe of Death,” all part of a plan by the great daredevil John Stotts to make a music video for the band DiM.

The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push

The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

 
Aid flowing into Philippines, but not where it’s needed

Aid is coming to Tacloban: medical supplies, pallets of water and food. But the scale of the disaster and challenges of delivering the assistance means few in this city have received any help.

World Trade Center tower tallest U.S. building, panel declares

An expert committee of architects declares that New York’s new 1 World Trade Center tower is now the tallest building in the U.S., surpassing Chicago’s Willis Tower.

How Clark County took root, blossomed, prospered

Nevada will celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2014, but Clark County wasn’t within the original state boundaries.

It’s never too early to do serious introspection

I’m 21 years old and came across (your column) (http://www.reviewjournal.com/steven-kalas/intense-personality-may-simply-need-calm-down) about someone describing themselves as intense and overwhelming to other people. He was eternally disappointed that people felt he was too demanding, too hard to deal with, taking too much energy away from others. I’m writing you because I feel I have the exact problem this man had described to you. I’ve never read any advice targeting this so well. It felt very validating that someone out there, too, feels the same way.

Field no match for lawn mower racing king

People were stopping by to have their picture taken with Bobby Cleveland, because he is the nine-time national champion of the USLMRA, which stands for United States Lawn Mower Racing Association.

Money needed to help fight cancer

To some people it seemed like a simple matter, a genuine no-brainer: Have insurance companies place oral chemotherapy on the same level as the intravenous cancer drug treatment.

 
Mom: Ore. worker killed by cougar voiced concerns

The longtime employee killed by a cougar this weekend at a suburban Portland animal sanctuary had expressed concerns about safety measures at the facility, her mother said Monday.

Top trends in kitchen cabinetry

“A kitchen provides physical and spiritual nourishment, and for many homes is now the heart and soul of family life.” That’s how Terence Conran opened his classic Kitchen Book 20 years ago, and it’s probably even truer today. The kitchen’s central importance in most households means that Americans are paying more attention than ever to the design and decoration of this vital space – a search for functionality, comfort and beauty that’s reflected in current trends in hardwood kitchen cabinetry.

Bathroom decor: Big bang ideas for less than $100

You may want your bathroom redo to look like you spent a million bucks on it, but you can get a whole new look for a lot less than that. In fact, some downright cheap upgrades can be quite dazzling. Here are a handful of high-impact ways to achieve a whole new look for less than $100.

Think outside the chocolate box when hosting a holiday cookie exchange

The holidays provide a good excuse to bake and eat cookies. Not the traditional chocolate chip or peanut butter cookies that most of us eat during the rest of the year, but those special recipes that have everyone going back for a second taste. Hosting a cookie exchange is a great way to expose your friends to a wider variety of cookie recipes this holiday season.

Bedtime tips to encourage kids to get to sleep

Despite parents’ best efforts, bedtime can be the most stressful time of the day. Many kids fight sleep and resist going to bed, and questions of “but why do I have to go to bed?” are often answered with an unsatisfying, “Because I said so!” To help eliminate bedtime frustrations, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) recommends parents take the following steps to positively influence their child’s sleep habits.

The ‘hearing bone’s’ connected to the what?

Once upon a time, before people knew any better, they thought that hearing loss was simply a part of growing older – something not worth doing much about. Turns out, hearing loss is a much bigger deal than we ever imagined. We need to take it seriously.

Tips for branding your small business

McDonald’s golden arches, Target’s bull’s eye and Starbucks’ mermaid are all instantly recognizable symbols for their brands and they have an impressive retail impact. But more than just a name and logo, your brand includes everything from printed materials to your customer’s experience.

Thanking those who serve America every day

On Monday — Veterans Day — as this is written, the U.S. military is standing up for its latest mission.

EDITORIAL: The importance of anonymous political speech

Where would this country be without its tradition of anonymous political speech? Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay published “The Federalist Papers” under the name Publius to force critics of the Constitution to attack the ideas behind the document rather than the authors of the essays. The ideas won.

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