This is National Singles Week, often called “Unmarried and Single Americans Week,” noting that many who are unmarried do not identify with the world “single,” since they may be parents, have partners, or are widowed or divorced. The idea for the observance started in Ohio in the 1980s. There are 103 million unmarried adult Americans, more than 44 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older. Seventeen million of them are seniors over the age of 65. The number of people who live by themselves is 33 million — 27 percent of all U.S. households, a figure which in 1970 was just 17 percent. That leaves room for households with unmarried couples, of which there were 6.7 million in the year 2011, including over 600,000 same-sex households. Profile America is in its 17th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Deake v Champion
Deake is seeking voter approval for his fifth term on the city council. He has been vigilant to existing conditions favoring the expansion of local gambling dens while maintaining low standards for subsistent housing. His vision of the future is that of a moth’s to the glow from the oil lamp at Sam’s oprey house. His concern for higher property taxes is valid yet he and his peers offer no alternative solution to change that future. Champion is a vagabond whose questionable residency was deemed valid by the looser of a lawsuit against the current city council. Her goal for Henderson is to return to a fantasy world such as Mayberry. If elected she would have a paying gig suitable for paying her own rent. She is another who confuses the role of city government with role of the public school administration. May the winning duck at this Saturday’s Ducky Darby foretell the fifth and final term for the incumbent.
Your fact for the day
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfield all have slim-mold beetles named after them
Source: 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, pg 200. For more details: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/06/050602011719.htm
No matter who “wins”–we lose, in my opinion.