USA Today

The City of Quincy along with the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center are asking everyone to go to the web site http://bestoftheroad.com to vote for Quincy as the most beautiful city!  Votes can be cast once a day now through September 3, 2013!

Have you voted yet?  The City of Quincy, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Oakley Lindsay Civic Center would love for you to vote to help Quincy win the Best of the Road 2013 Most Beautiful City Award.

Today marks my first day back from a short vacation to Spring Training in the Sunshine State, which is appropriately named. When I travel I always seem to have things happen to me that doesn't seem to happen to others. Today's blog will be the first of a series of blogs related to the airline industry.

In a story in yesterday's USA Today, Americans are living longer, with fewer deaths from heart disease and cancer, but more chronic illnesses, troubling levels of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and sedentary behavior are causes for concern. Medical advances are allowing more people to live with those conditions.

During the 7am hour this morning I mentioned that the USA Today, a reputable news outlet, reported that dogs in America collectively create 10-million tons of dog poop annually. The paper also reported that 40% of Americans don't pick up after their dogs.