Status quo - it's not good enough any more
      Carroll County taxpayers have been given a number of reasons why the county is in a financial bind. Loss of the inventory tax (which by the way will be first felt this year), EMS (taking on Yeoman and Burlington), highway department (rising fuel costs and outdated equipment), sheriff's department ...
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Midwest Memo
Comfort clothes
by Alan Shultz
      Enough about the comfort food, about golden fried chicken and fluffy mashed potatoes and flaky buttermilk biscuits with lots of butter and a dollop of jam. Enough about bowls of chocolate pudding and generous slices of warm from the oven pie with rich vanilla ice cream melting atop.
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