After months of what has been at times violent conflict between a local union and the corporation they simultaneously want to work for and vilify, a local ministerial group decided it was time to ask God to intervne, if only for some peace and quiet.

For the cats story, I opted for a milder headline than I originally laid out. On this side of that shift, I'm glad I did. We got enough angry feedback as it was. Apparently, people who live in trailers prefer to say they live in mobile homes.

The story about the governors of cash-strapped states jetting off to an air show in Paris was a bonus that fell in my lap as I was trying to put my night together.