I'm sorry for bringing it up so suddenly, but it was a decision long in the making. With mounting responsibilities at work and in my personal life, I felt the need to turn my attention to them instead. My hopes are to get some kind of further certification to improve the knowledge that I bring to our team. As I love being on staff here, I came up with a compromise: I will give up my Q&A host position to take on the role of a reviewer. Hopefully, I will be able to keep up with everything now!

Like everyone else in the RPG-loving world, I have been almost fully absorbed by the marvel that is Lost Odyssey. At five hours a night since I got it, I have reached to the fourth disk where I have been running through all the side quests I could find. The game is a blast and I do believe I will need to write a review on it.

Talking cents into voters: Muscatine County educators hope they can ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — A penny lying on the sidewalk is a common sight, as if the single cent is no longer worth the effort it would take to pick it up.

n West Liberty has a new high schooln Wilton High School students are performing in a new auditoriumn Muscatine students attend a vastly improved high schooln Students at Louisa-Muscatine Junior Senior High School have a new Iowa Com-munications Network room, a weight room, wrestling room and four air-conditioned classrooms.School districts throughout the county have also undergone a number of projects that make schools safer, more comfortable, energy efficient and attractive.And every one of these projects began with a penny.That’s because in 1999, the residents of Muscatine County voted to give an extra penny in tax for the purchases they and other shoppers would make in the county from 2000-2010.Local option sales tax is imposed on sales and services except for food, prescription drugs, motor fuel, automobiles, farm equipment and rentals subject to an existing hotel/motel tax.The tax is given to the county and divided among the area school districts in proportion to their student population to use for school district building needs and improvements.Time to start anewThe resident-approved tax, or School Infrastructure Local Option sales and service tax, also called SILO, is nearing the end of that 10-year period, and educators are hoping the public will vote to renew it.

Secret sharer

In L.A., Nathaniel avoids the obvious as long as he can, avoids his grad-school notebook on the floor of Coolberg's car. When, finally, the subtext becomes the text, the novel resolves itself around two documents, one a sealed letter, addressed to Nathaniel, from Jamie. He's never opened it. In that way, he claims, he keeps hope alive. In that way, we think, he keeps the wound open and the delusion alive. (Perhaps we're too harsh.) The second document you hold in your hands, dear reader - "The Soul Thief," but to say more would be to say too much. Except this: Whoever wrote "The Soul Thief" knows that we write about what keeps us up at night, that a writer gets to inhabit many lives, and that he who tells the story makes the meaning.

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