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Quote for today… “”Our projected budget deficits are not ‘manageable’ without significant changes in ‘status quo’ programs, policies, processes and operations … We cannot simply grow our way out of this problem.”  – David Walker, Comptroller General of the General Accounting Office, September, 2003.

• Strube’s stink bug traps article is page one in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era today. Visit the Strube Website to find out more about this passionate local entrepreneur, Andy Strube.
• Road trip, continued. Writing from Gallup, NM today. From the very hot Oklahoma to an almost chilly, rainy 61 degrees last night is a delight. New Mexico offers an astounding array of scenery; there’s a new vista around each turn in the road. This reader review from bestplaces.net might be an apt narrative. “There are worlds that collide in a kaleidoscopic way in Gallup. Culture here is more palpable than Starbucks. History is settled, but the remnants linger on. A kind of rock and roll ghost town of time past-of cowboys and indians; here, where the Natives have their own America and bartering in turquoise is a common occurrence. Where Navajo and Zuni walk with railroad men down historic route 66, and the dust never settles, and the mournful whistle of the night train from LA marks a steady cadence, Gallup is an amazing anachronism that must be protected, and ultimately, revered. Nothing less can do to preserve the heartbeat of the nation. You want to feel America. This is the place.” Gallup has lost population in the last census, now the population is placed at 18,497.