Paul Douglas
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"Paul Howard Douglas" was an United States/American politician and economist. A member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senate/U.S. Senator from Illinois for eighteen years, from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career, he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.

Born in Massachusetts and raised in Maine, Douglas graduated from Bowdoin College and Columbia University. He served as a professor of economics at several schools, most notably the University of Chicago, and earned a reputation as a reformer while a member of the Chicago City Council (1939–1942). During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps/U.S. Marine Corps, rising to the rank of Lieutenant colonel (United States)/lieutenant colonel and becoming known as a war hero.

He was married to Emily Taft Douglas, a United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative from Illinois's Illinois's At-large congressional district/At-large district (1945–1947).

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We've decided construction is our business and that is what we are sticking to.

That's true. fresh snow will keep the temperatures 10-15 degrees colder than if it were bare ground. (It is) almost like the ground is being air conditioned. The sun's energy heats the ground, which in turns heats the air.

One of the things I found vaguely interesting, as a weather geek, is that the snow actually melts from the bottom up.

It's crazy; there just hasn't been any precipitation.

I would imagine they would go higher, but it is hard to say.

That's three months of rain falling in one night, and there's no way the ground can soak that up. There will be serious runoff.

People that like snow, need to get out there and play in it.

It's been 18 to 20 degrees above average for much of Minnesota. You can expect it to be in the 40s most of next week, too.

There's really no smoking gun. I'd like to blame it on climate change or global warming, but I can't.