Scouts help to unveil new postage stamp – Sangre de Cristo Chronicle

Mashable Great Fire of London comic book stamps will reignite your love for letter writingMashableTo mark the occasion, Royal Mail has released a set of six graphic novel-style stamps reimagining the fire and locating the action within a street-map design. This is the first time Royal Mail has used a graphic-novel style of illustration for…

Vote-by-mail ballots go out next week; two stamps needed to mail …Davis EnterprisePermanent vote-by-mail voters and those who sent in a vote-by-mail request for this election will begin receiving their ballots in the mail next week, according to the Yolo County elections office. Those who wish to receive a vote-by-mail ballot but …and more » More:…

TPMDC To Sen. Storms: Let them eat cakeMiamiHerald.comRonda Storms, R-Ronda Knows Best, wants to peek into the grocery carts of poor people and tell them what they can't buy with food stamps, a push that's getting the not-shy Storms attention from National Public Radio to the New York Times.No sweets with food stamps bill moving…

Real Food Can Be Cheaper Than JunkNew York Times, United StatesBy Mark Bittman CookforGood.com has a compelling set of instructions for how to shop and cook inexpensively enough to live on food stamps. Well thought out and presented. This is a long and ongoing discussion — worthy of a cookbook, really — but here … More:…

Considering where he’s been, if Hugh Charles has a chip on his shoulder, there’s no better place to be than Calgary. More: continued here

Oneonta Daily Star Stamp-size artwork of musical figures to go on displayOneonta Daily Star"Postal Mix Tapes, the Musical Stamp Series of Didier Cremieux," featuring actual-size, hand-made postage stamps celebrating figures from a plethora of musical styles ranging from opera to Texas swing, will open on Saturday, with an artist's reception …and more » More: continued here