Dory Devlin, Shine staff’s Blog
By Dory Devlin, Shine staff Last updated: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:26am PST-
Oh, how we talked, supported, opined, criticized, kvetched, and sometimes agreed on Shine in 2009. Often, the big, everyone-is-affected stories like health care reform got you going, but more often it was the singular human stories that sparked long threads of conversation. Click through to recall some of the most talked-about topics on Shine this year. Read More »
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Sadly, this is not
surprising: Copyblogger (love that word, by the way) James
Chartrand has written a compelling
post revealing that he is not really named James and, in fact, is
not a man. She took the male pen… Read More »
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From the start, all of us at Yahoo! Shine have been so impressed with how Jenny Sanford has handled the public spectacle her fake-Appalachian-Trail-hiking-governor husband has made of their marriage. Not only did she not stand by South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford when he made his bizarre mea culpa to the press and voters after he had disappeared for days to Argentina to be with his lover over Father's Day weekend, but she personally issued her own statement at the time. She made it clear that while she would work on reconciliation with her philandering husband, her dignity and her sons and how they are affected by their family crisis would come first.
AP Photo/Brett Flashnick: South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford, right, looks on as her husband Gov. Mark Sanford, takes a photo with guests at the Governor's Mansion in Columbia, S.C., during a Christmas Open House last week. Today, she filed for divorce.
As the world has yet to hear from Elin Nordegren, who has been terribly and publicly betrayed by her husband, Tiger Woods, Jenny Sanford issued another statement today, announcing that she has filed for divorce. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (19) | Blog
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A glut of college degrees combined with tough economic times and a record-high 10.6-percent unemployment rate among college grads is causing many to ask whether a college degree is worth its crazy-fast-rising price tag.
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Since two-thirds of college kids leave school with debt (now averaging $23,000) at a time when even low-paying entry level jobs are hard to come by, it's a natural question to ask. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (58) | Blog
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With unemployment hanging
sadly at 10 percent (higher when you consider unemployed part-time
workers and underemployed workers), President Barack Obama has
unveiled his latest plan to keep the economic recovery on the move
by focusing on investing in jobs. The president has recommended we
take $200… Read More »
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Cash is losing its impersonal
sheen this holiday season, probably because just about everyone on
everyone's list could use some extra green stuff.
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This extremely cute kitten tummy-tickle video stopped our conference-room work session in its tracks this morning. I warn you: It makes the cute meter go through the roof, but it's definitely worth a few seconds of your day. All together now: Awwwww....
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I don't like to jump ahead too often because when you have kids it seems life moves at warp speed as it is. But I've often thought about how fun it will be when our kids are older and they come home from college or beyond for the holidays.
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For lots of young adults and parents, life currently is an extended holiday in a recession that has hit young workers extra hard. One in seven parents with grown children have had at least one of those grown children move back home this past year, according to a Pew Research Center study. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (14) | Blog
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For those of us who have
several lists going in our head this week as we prep for
Thanksgiving, Mark Bittman, the food writer for The New York
Times, has some wonderful, calming words for us. Now, this is
the kind of guy who could send us into a tizzy with things like
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Is that rain, or the tears of thousands of publishers, TV executives, and celebrities plotting their public rehabilitation pouring down?
AP: Oprah Winfrey at the start of her extraordinary career
It's official: Oprah Winfrey will pull the plug on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air. Rumored for what seems like forever, likely feared for longer by CBS Television Distribution, which distributes the show to more than 200 U.S. TV markets, the shuttering of the heart of Oprah's media empire is nigh. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (32) | Blog
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