United States Postal Service is Broke.  Services eliminated, locations closed, prices hiked. Can they recover?

In September, John Berry, director of the federal Office of Personnel Management, said the Obama administration would push for legislation to allow a three-month delay in the $5.5 billion payment due on Sept. 30 to finance retirees' future health coverage. Read More

New York Times: On Monday, USPS said that it would reduce service to cut costs. They said this move could largely eliminate the chance of next-day delivery for stamped letters.  Read More

Beginning early next year, it will also cost a penny more to mail letters to any location in the United States, three cents more for post cards and five cents more for letters to Canada and Mexico.  Read More

How will these changes affect you?

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Late next week, sportsmen, and specifically - waterfowlers, from around the country will flock to the small Northwest Arkansas town of Siloam Springs for what looks to be the next big event in the waterfowl industry. The 2011 International Waterfowl Festival & Expo will run Saturday and Sunday August 20 & 21 and will include a wide variety of events sure to entertain fowlers and non-fowlers alike.

The 50 acre property will be filled with over 80 vendor booths coming form 19 states!  The Expo is free to the public and will host a full two days of seminars on a variety of topics, not limited to duck and goose hunting. In addition to information on waterfowl hunting, calling and scouting – you can expect seminars on a wide array of subjects including taxidermy, turkey hunting and calling, retriever training, bass fishing and more.

OTTAWA — January 24th, 2011

A new bird disease has arrived in Canada's Arctic, one so lethal it can kill thousands of ducks in a dense colony in a lightning-fast outbreak.

Eider ducks stricken with avian cholera can die so fast that they remain upright on their eggs, eyes open. Some fall out of the sky, dead. Others survive unharmed, surrounded by corpses.

Now Carleton University and Environment Canada will get more than $500,000 to study the disease — which birds get it, how it spreads, why some survive, and how it arrived in the Arctic after decades of existing farther south.

 FULL STORY BY TOM SPEARS, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

Waterfowl season openers approach for South and Ohio River zones

Duck hunters are hoping for a better season this year after what DNR biologist Adam Phelps said was a down year for duck harvest last year.