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Who are the moles? The question was like a parlor game for employees of State Farm Insurance Co. after Hurricane Katrina, one they nervously played during coffee breaks or in the parking lot after work. Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, a prominent lawyer of tobacco litigation fame, created a stir by announcing in March that two "insiders" were helping him build cases against insurers for denying claims for Hurricane Katrina losses. Their identities remained a mystery until the day in early June when Cori and Kerri Rigsby — employees of a company that contracted with State Farm — told a supervisor they...

<p>Pete Gallaher's column of Nov. 11, 2002, struck a chord with me. I have been a registered Republican for 50 years, and you would think I would be happy with our last election.</p> <p>My party made a clean sweep in Ohio. But am I happy? Not in this lifetime! I went to the polls to vote out of office Gov. Taft and Betty Montgomery, and to keep Maureen O'Connor off of the Ohio Supreme Court. I knew that barring a miracle I would lose my vote, but to paraphrase an old John Wayne movie, you don't mind if I vote do you? It makes me feel better to vote against these liars and crooks. Let's start with our governor.</p>