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07-23-2026 - For reasons unknown to me, the mail was late one evening. When it did arrive, it was put in my mailbox with the help of a flashlight.
07-23-2026 - From the U.S Department of Justice - CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a woman of assaulting a United States Postal Service mail carrier following a two-day trial. DIANE BRINKLEY assaulted the mail carrier on June 9, 2025, in Chicago. The mail carrier was delivering mail at a home near Brinkley’s former residence when Brinkley approached and began yelling at her. Brinkley shoved the postal carrier, causing the mail carrier to fall onto the concrete steps of a home. When the mail carrier stood up, Brinkley struck her a second time, knocking the mail carrier down again. Brinkley, 56, of Chicago, was convicted of a federal assault charge. The jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago returned its verdict on July 16, 2026. The conviction is punishable by up to a year in federal prison. U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain set sentencing for November 16.
07-23-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, and I’m bracing myself for another hot day. We reached 105 the last two days. The forecast for today is a chilly 100. By chance, are you creating any new information products, with or without reproduction rights to advertise here? How about a new printed adsheet? My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready!
07-22-2023 - Driving home from the grocery store, I saw a couple walking their dogs on the sidewalk in 101-degree heat. It’s things like this that make me hope there is no such thing as reincarnation. What if I come back as a dog in the care of ignorant people?
07-22-2026 - Headlines - Shocking 105 million Americans NOT working, More than during COVID or Great Recession, Shoplifting spikes as inflation climbs, Some food prices have fallen – but inflation expected to rise.
07-22-2026 - Economics Daily
07-22-2026 - Let’s say someone contacts you unexpectedly and says you have to pay to fix a problem, get a prize, or something else. But then they say the only way to pay is by bank transfer, wire transfer, cryptocurrency, payment app, or gift card. Well, reports to the FTC show that’s a scam. The rest of the story!
07-22-2026 - From Wikipedia - In Norman times, under the influence of the word escot, in Old French, the vowel changed, and the term became scot. In 19th century Kent and Sussex, low-lying farmland was still being called scot-land. Scot, though, gradually became a general term for local levies; a person who was not liable for the levy, but received its benefits, got off 'scot-free'. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0
07-22-2026 - FEMA Daily Operations Briefing
07-22-2026 - The sales material said I could make as much as $7,500 in one month and continue to average $250 per day. That claim might be more believable if the sales material didn't look like it was produced on one of those old mimeograph machines! If you're too young to remember those, Google it! Come on, folks, we can do better than that!
07-22-2026 - NWS Short Range Weather Discussion
07-22-2026 - You'll find that the big potatoes are on top of the heap because there are a lot of little potatoes holding them up.
07-22-2026 - NWS Extended Range Weather Discussion
07-22-2026 - Good Morning! It’s Wednesday, whatever that means to you. The only thing I have on my schedule is getting my car’s air conditioner recharged. It didn’t stand up well to yesterday’s 104 degrees. We have another six weeks or so before things start to cool down here in North Texas. I’m more of a winter guy. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
07-21-2026 - CNBC Survey: 51% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is out of reach for most people right now:
07-21-2026 - From Google AI Overview: "The world's first self-adhesive postage stamps were issued by Sierra Leone in 1964. In the United States, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) introduced them in 1974 with an experimental 10-cent "Peace on Earth" Christmas stamp. Following early experimentation, modern water-soluble self-adhesive stamps rolled out nationwide in the U.S. in 1992. By 2002, nearly all new U.S. commemorative stamps were self-adhesive, eventually leading to a complete phase-out of traditional water-activated ("lick-and-stick") stamps.” I knew it had been a while since I licked a stamp!
07-21-2026 - It's been many months since I've been visited by a door-to-door salesperson. I'm not complaining. When they were coming around regularly, the product was usually electricity providers. I've never had one selling something that I needed or even wanted. It just occurred to me that it would be kind of cool if one showed up with a bunch of new "extra income mail order" magazines. I might buy one or more of those!
07-21-2026 - From Wikipedia - The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970. The strike began in New York City and spread to some other cities in the following two weeks. This strike against the federal government, regarded as illegal, was the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history. President Richard Nixon called out the United States armed forces and the National Guard in an attempt to distribute the mail and break the strike. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0)
07-21-2026 - From the U.S. Department of Justice - LOS ANGELES – A member of the South Los Angeles-based Crips street gang was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison for his role in a $2.8 million scheme in which he stole checks in the mail, altered them, then used Instagram to recruit bank account holders to give him access to their accounts so he could deposit the checks and quickly withdraw the funds before banks could detect the fraud. Chase Matthew Griffin, 26, a.k.a. “Trey,” of Atlanta, who also resided in Ontario and South Los Angeles, was sentenced by United States District Judge Josephine L. Staton, who also ordered him to pay $307,386 in restitution. Griffin pleaded guilty on March 5 to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. He has been in federal custody since September 2025. According to court documents, from 2022 to September 2025, Griffin participated in a criminal conspiracy in which he and others obtained checks stolen from the mail, then altered them or created counterfeit versions so they appeared to be payable to their accomplices. Griffin recruited these accomplices online, often through Instagram, where he posted photographs of himself holding stacks of currency that were more than one foot high. He advertised for holders of various bank accounts to give him access to their accounts. After he recruited an accomplice, Griffin and his co-conspirators deposited these fraudulent checks, which were typically for tens of thousands of dollars, into the accomplice’s bank account, then raced to withdraw the funds before the bank could detect the fraud.
07-21-2026 - UPDATED - Federal Trade Commission Actions
07-21-2026 - Economics Daily