John Denver in 1979.

Remembering John Denver

Music |  A tribute album brings new fans and new respect for the late singer-songwriter

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IRS building in Washington, D.C.

Signs and Wonders: Taxing times ahead for IRS employees

Newsworthy |  Sequestration hits IRS. To comply with the budget cuts demanded by sequestration, the IRS plans to furlough its entire staff of 89,551 for five days spread…

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Pastor John Crowder preaches to his congregation Sunday morning in West, Texas.

Signs and Wonders: West, Texas, church worships in hayfield

Newsworthy |  This is West. Boston celebrated a return to near normal this weekend at churches and at sporting events. Not so in West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant blew…

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Scouts salute as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the “Save Our Scouts” prayer vigil and rally held in early February outside Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Dallas.

Scouting compromise

Homosexuality |  A Boy Scouts of America proposal to allow homosexual youth while maintaining a ban on gay leaders makes both sides unhappy

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People comfort one another during a candle light vigil at St. Mary, Church of the Assumption.

Signs and Wonders: West mourns victims of plant explosion

Newsworthy |  Explosions in the Sky. I’m in Austin, Texas, this week, and in honor of that I’ve been listening to Explosions in the Sky, a Texas “post-rock” band,

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Specialist Paul Cosentino, left center, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Dollars and Sense: Earnings disappoint, China slows, volatility increases—but don’t worry

Money |  Market madness. Monday was tax day in America, and this week was the first full week of earnings season. Wall Street couldn’t have cared less about April…

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FOR THE RECORD: Stockman, 2007; Ronald Reagan with Treasury Secretary Regan (left) and Budget Director Stockman (right), 1985.
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Bubble buster

Money |  David Stockman is older and grayer, but his aggressive style and message on spending remain the same

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Mark Sanford with his fiancée, Maria Belen Chapur, after winning the GOP nomination for the U.S. House seat he once held.

Signs and Wonders: Will voters continue to forgive Mark Sanford’s trespasses?

Newsworthy |  Sanford Agonistes. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford keeps getting covered by messes of his own making. This time around, his ex-wife, Jenny, has…

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Atlanta manager Fredi Gonzalez looks on as the Braves defeat the Washington Nationals Sunday.

Signs and Wonders: Baseball on the field and in the theaters

Newsworthy |  Braves blowout. That baseball is the greatest game ever devised by mankind is, of course, a settled truth. Recent surveys show that those who doubt this truth…

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A trader works the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.

Dollars and Sense: Could the Dow reach 16,000, or even 17,000 by year’s end?

Money |  Earnings season. We’ve entered earnings season for the markets, as we do each quarter, and the news so far this week has been upbeat. Alcoa is a huge…

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Rick Santorum

Signs and Wonders: Santorum warns GOP not to cave

Newsworthy |  Homosexual marriage trendy. Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum said this week that homosexual marriage is a trendy issue and that Republicans should…

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President Obama and acting budget director Jeff Zientsat the budget announcement Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden.

Signs and Wonders: Obama presents a budget even a Republican can love

Newsworthy |  Finally, a budget. President Barack Obama rolls out his fiscal 2014 budget plan today, and the White House says Republicans will like what they see. Some…

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