Baucus aims to extend middle-class tax cuts (Billings Gazette)
WASHINGTON - Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., introduced a bill Thursday to make Bush-era tax cuts aimed at the middle class permanent, despite warnings from tax experts who questioned the cuts' effectiveness and whether the federal government can afford them.

Helping your parents into a new life (WDAM-TV Hattiesburg)
My father wouldn't move to Washington. "I hate D.C.," he said, when I suggested that he and my mother move near me. He had lived there as an ornery adolescent and hadn't been impressed. At 78, he was still ornery.