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With Tax Day quickly approaching, taxpayers can find a long and growing list of how Uncle Sam is spending/wasting their hard-earned money. The United States Postal Service (USPS) claims to not be on that list, despite a recent watchdog report showing that the agency reaps more than $3.6 billion each year in indirect taxpayer subsidies.And every year, the organization that describes itself as using “zero tax dollars” accumulates larger losses. The USPS most recently reported a $1.5 billion net loss for the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, driven by declining mail revenues and soaring delivery costs. According to a recent...

A potential major winter storm with snow and ice is eying portions of the southern U.S. later this week. Question is exactly where. To help give you an idea of at least where the potential lies and the reason questions linger, I have provide a video blog post. Enjoy!

An upper level storm system will be digging south-southeastward out of Colorado and into eastern Texas during the next 24-hours. You can see the storm system spinning on this water vapor image.

<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Snow is falling in the New Orleans area.</p> <p>The National Weather Service says a mixture of sleet and snow is falling Thursday morning from Baton Rouge east across much of southeastern Louisiana.</p> <p>The winter weather closed some schools and created hazardous driving conditions.</p>

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0006 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0621 PM CST SAT JAN 01 2005 AREAS AFFECTED...SERN MN...NCNTRL/NERN IA...MUCH OF WI...FAR NRN IL AND MUCH OF LOWER MI/SRN UPPER MI CONCERNING...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET VALID 020021Z - 020615Z SIGNIFICANT ICE/SLEET EVENT WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WHILE PROGRESSING ENEWD FROM THE UPPER MS VALLEY ACROSS THE WRN/NRN GREAT LAKES REGION THROUGH 06Z. TWO CORRIDORS OF HEAVIEST ACCUMULATIONS ARE ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR DURING THIS TIME. ONE AXIS IS ANTICIPATED TO EXTEND FROM NCNTRL/NERN IA NEWD ACROSS SERN MN...CENTRAL/NERN WI AND THE WRN U.P. OF MI. THE OTHER AXIS ACROSS PORTIONS OF...

<p>When I'm walking my dogs or jogging in 8-degree weather, one thought pervades my junk-drawer brain: How do they do it?</p> <p>How do animals big and small survive frigid January weather?</p> <p>Heading snout-first through a blizzard, I imagine myself as a squirrel, mole or weasel -- not a hard thing to imagine, my wife says -- wearing a leotard of fur and trying to survive frigid weather for one full day. Perhaps I would survive, but I'd be cranky.</p>