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...MotherReader blog argues for the creation of a new organization called BACA—Bloggers Against Celebrity Authors—pointing out that for every book deal with a celebrity, there’s one less contract given to a new author. But before we all rush to join BACA, we have to ask ourselves: is the merging of celebrity and literary culture really so bad? Good books have always and will always manage to be published every year, in spite of growing commercialism. As long as readers willingly consume both good literature and its opposite, celebrity literature, both will...
...huge inland sea of snow of eastern Colorado, people are in harm?s way but the cattle are being devastated. In Baca County, National Guardsmen are delivering medications to nursing homes and the elderly. But Baca has only an average 1.8 person per square mile. There are approximately 35 cattle per square mile here and nearly all of them are in deathly trouble. At one feedlot, an estimated 2,500 cattle are dead. And more snow is in the forecast. As many as 340,000 cattle in Colorado are at grave risk. The herds in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma will...
Labor Department and Forest Service officials insist they are cracking down on unscrupulous employers and contractors. But critics like Congressman Joe Baca, a California Democrat, say they have not done enough. "If we're going to expand any kind of guest-worker program," Baca says, "we've got to make sure there's not this abuse...
Monteiro will be attending Georgetown Law School and Baca is looking for a job in the D.C. area...
...Baca says that the wedding plans have come together quickly...