OpenLine audio: Honor Flight, gas prices
This week, callers react to our Honor Flight coverage and continue discussing how the U.S. can become less dependent on foreign oil.
OpenLine audio: Politics and puppies
This week in our online OpenLine audio collection, callers review President Bush’s effect on the economy over the past seven years, criticize Sen. John McCain’s voting record and question whether Sen. Barack Obama is fit for the nation’s highest office. Also, a caller is outraged that a driver ran over a puppy and fled.
OpenLine audio: Placing blame for gas prices
This week in our OpenLine audio collection, callers point fingers for high gas prices, debate gun control and union labor, and gloat about the Cubs sweeping the White Sox.
On June 25, 60 area veterans took an Honor Flight, an all-expenses paid trip to visit the World War II National Memorial in Washington, D.C. Beacon News reporter Andre Salles and photographer/videographer Heather Eidson went along. You can share the experience through our three-part video series and a special Web page that includes more interviews with veterans, a first-hand account of the trip and all of the newspaper's coverage of the event.