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Gaffney proposed to Carloss during a hike in the Shenandoah Mountains late last April. They were talking about taking a trip around the world together, but they knew they were going to want a bigger wedding, Gaffney said, so they decided the extended travels would have to wait until after they were married. “Jenny said it would be years away,” he said. “I proposed right then...
According to Celucci, Dukakis raised the state income tax from 5 percent to 5.95 percent in a hike that he promised would only be temporary...
...when he decided that Brinton should become his wife, he proposed to her during a hike one winter evening at Ensign Peak, a foothill overloooking a snow-covered Salt Lake City. It was the spot where, years before, Brinton’s father had proposed to her mother...
...alcoholic, sober since 1986, and has just ushered her son Sam through his high school years in a bohemian enclave of Marin where drugs are there for the asking. Kids who remind her of Rosie are everywhere she turns. On this Sunday morning, she has just returned from a hike to the ocean, where she watched a search-and-rescue team look for a 17-year-old girl from Mill Valley who disappeared during an overnight party with her friends. Inside St. Andrew, Lamott's beloved church, she offers prayers for the search. Later that day, the girl is found...
...budget, Crist stumped not for new taxes but for new user fees - for example, higher costs for driver's licenses and annual motor-vehicle-tag renewals, not a popular proposition during a recession in a state where public transportation is thin and almost everyone drives. (Granted, the car-fee hike theoretically could be used to enhance public transit.) Rubio, meanwhile, touted his effort as speaker to eliminate property taxes and replace that lost revenue with increased sales taxes - an especially regressive idea in a low-wage state like Florida...