I wrote the post below last night, just after Pollster.com had changed its rating of the prez race in Florida and Colorado from toss-up to leaning Obama, which gave the Dem ticket, for the first time I believe, a majority of the Electoral College among..

MREF provides free consultations to nonprofit organizations, helping them sort out whether the offered gift is a financial boon or a Trojan House (yes, I meant house).

The Dow industrials plunged below the 10,000 for the first time in nearly four years after the $700 billion bailout package and government interventions in Europe failed to settle nervousness in global markets. Here's some reaction from market observers

Comcast, for example, has an employee monitor Twitter feeds for customer problems. Ojeda-Zapata was having an issue with his own Comcast service one day recently and wrote a tweet about it. Five minutes later, he said, his phone rang. It was a Comcast rep

In the new film "Blindness," a mysterious illness strikes a town, leaving its victims blind. The government quarantines the infected in an old mental asylum, which soon becomes a filthy, chaotic hellhole where helpless blind people defecate in hallways.

The topic was simple enough: Which architect and which construction company would be crowned by the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission — with an A-OK from the Vikings — to begin to plan a new pro football stadium, price-tag unknown?

Paul Newman was a truly great actor and great movie star who made only a few great movies. His most indelible characters found themselves on one side of a gap, generational and sometimes legal as well.

Maria Awes watched in curiosity, then repulsion, as the man crouched down near the Dorothy Day Center during a protest on the Republican National Convention’s second day. “There he was, crapping in his hand,” a still-amazed Awes recalls.

John McCain plans to attend tonight's presidential debate with Barack Obama after all, raising this question: In the midst of a major crisis in Washington, how will the candidates do? A trio of local debate experts offer their views.

The Republican National Convention may be gone, but we're in for a long ride on the swirl of legal issues it created. Think of it in the coming months as Court Fest.