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Ketchikan: The Nautilus V; A dream come true - "Our darkest hour was when we were sitting in Florida and the work on the boat just wasn't progressing. Nothing was happening. We were about to get kicked out of the condo we were renting because it was the busy season in Florida. And we were spending money like a drunken sailor."

To Nils Utterback and his wife Diane, this certainly seemed like the darkest hour in their venture to purchase a "semi-submersible" or glass-bottomed boat. This was the hour they began having doubts about whether the boat would ever be finished, released from the shipyard and transported across the country to their hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska. - Read the rest of this story by Louise Brinck Harrington...
Saturday - July 17, 2004

Michael Reagan: Chopping Off Their Noses - A lot of Reagan conservatives are threatening to cut off their noses to spite their faces, as the old saying goes. They think that because President Bush hasn't done every single thing they want, or has done things they didn't want, they should punish him by staying home on election day or voting for some third party candidate who hasn't got a chance to win in November. - Read more...
July 17, 2004 - Saturday