Not you, Pluto: Scientists say they have solid evidence of a ninth planet in our solar system: a Neptune-like gas giant floating out there in deep space.
With the discovery, it might be time to assign a new name to spurned ex-planet Pluto. The Buzz nominates Chopped Liver.
Make school lunches great again: A Senate committee Wednesday approved legislation that would ease requirements for healthier school lunches. School lunch directors say the relaxed rules would make it easier to plan meals that appeal to kids.
In other words, school lunches would be a little less Michelle Obama, and a little more Chris Christie.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1908, the city fathers in New York City passed a law prohibiting women from smoking in public places.
The aldermen were denounced as hopelessly old-fashioned and anti-modern. Little did anybody know that, had the law also applied to men, and maybe also banned 64-ounce soda pops, it would have been 100 years ahead of its time.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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