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I didn’t know Carrie that well. I really don’t want this to come off like one of those bullshit celebrity death social media posts. I didn’t even like the original Star Wars. But I knew Carrie through my father. She was one of his best friends for as long as I can remember. And she…
Robert Leo Hulseman. He’s the man who invented the red Solo cup, staple at every party ever. He died last week at age 84. The Solo Cup Company was the family business — Hulseman’s dad started it in 1936 — and Hulseman started working in the company factory when he was 18, according to his…
More than 1,000 times a minute, someone bites into what has been described as a wet envelope of cat food—and keeps eating. Jack in the Box is known to most of the country for its hamburgers and bigheaded mascot. But for many of its devotees, the magic of the fast-food chain lies in its interpretation…
Image via Wikipedia Commons California already has a lot of great things going for it: an affable climate, the largest economy in America and my amazing eyebrow threader lives here. If you thought all that was too good to be true, just wait. On January 1st, 2017, California will introduce a new series of laws…
Since Gallup began asking Americans the people they admired the most, there’s been a consistent pattern: Whoever was president or president-elect was almost always the man the country admired the most. The most admired woman? Usually someone who had been married to a president. Only five times has the most admired man in the country not…
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New census estimates reveal that over the past six years, the Empire State had a net loss of about 847,000 people to other states. That’s more of a domestic migration loss than any other state in the country, putting New York first in the census category. Albany think tank the Empire Center alerted us to…
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