A billboard ad sponsored by an anti-smoking group compares daily deaths from tobacco-related illnesses to the populations of small Iowa towns, including Lake View. Lake View Mayor John Westergaard weighs in on the ads.

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Alaska's Ted Stevens bid farewell to his Senate colleagues Thursday as his nearly 40-year career draws to a close. The longest-serving Republican in the Senate was convicted on corruption charges last month and narrowly lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich.

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There has been a lot of talk about the current economic crisis being "the country's worst since the Great Depression." Listeners who remember the Depression of the 1930s share memories of how their families pulled through hard times.

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Tim Rutten, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, argues that both proponents and opponents of California's controversial same-sex marriage ban are "going too far" in their responses.

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