By Maylon T. Rice and Susan Porter
The top story of 2007 was one, that even by the best standards, is just a little harder than usual to put a finger on: The economy.

Gas prices and foreclosures still big news in NWA
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Hope over experience
By Doug Thompson
Barack Obama is a fresh face. He promises change. He brings hope to a country jaded by a failed, corrupt presidency that put political success above the needs of the country.

End of the Year Awards

Resting on the Mountaintop
Let us consider the next two weeks as days of rest (in the mountaintop) before the next astrological storms of change take place that will affect and influence humanity till 2024. At January’s end Pluto enters Capricorn, Mars turns direct and Mercury retrogrades!