Chris Christie got laughs on the Letterman show last week when he showed up with a doughnut. I get what he was trying to do. People keep goofing on his girth, and a former White House doctor had just told CNN that if Christie were elected president, “I’m worried about this man dying in office.” So he figures that the best way to defuse the issue is to make light of his weight.

Yo, Chris Christie, governor of New Joisey, how ya doin'?

For whatever reason, you need cash. Pronto. Maybe there’s a hot date tomorrow night. Gotta get your hands on the new iPod Nano, “Battlestar Galactica” DVD box set or Ikea can’t-quite-pronounce-the-name-but-it’s-got-an-umlaut chair.

Reports suggest New Hampshire voters haven’t focused on the national politics invading their state yet, and it’s hard to understand why. Republican Presidential nomination hopefuls are visiting here as dutifully, hungrily and reverentially as Republican politicos at a private Koch Brothers seminar.

Wilfred Charlie will have more than one reason to smile tonight at the Scottsdale Community College commencement ceremony. Two of Charlie’s five children, Christi and Heather, have earned associate’s degrees and will accept their diplomas.

"I got some sad news for Republicans. Ronald Reagan is dead."

March 17, 2005

Heart surgery can exhaust a patient. But when the patient is a 4-year-old girl, and the Coyotes’ Howler walks in the door, there’s only one thing to do. Howl.

Mike Reagan: On Tuesday, voters across the nation will take to the polls in the first elections since President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Wilfred Charlie will have more than one reason to smile tonight at the Scottsdale Community College commencement ceremony. Two of Charlie’s five children have earned associate’s degrees and will accept their diplomas.

Music has so many genres and subgenres nowadays it’s hard to keep track of them all, but chances are “Firish Poultry” is one genre you’ve never heard of.

This week’s top performances in high school football:

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Joe Johnson had 21 points, seven rebounds and seven assists to help the Suns beat the Sacramento Kings 124-96 on Friday night in the final preseason game for both teams.

To participants, Saturday’s "That Dam Swim at Tempe Town Lake" represented an opportunity to test their speed and endurance by swimming the entire length of the man-made reservoir.

Student letters helped Army Chief Warrant Officer Michael Behrendt cope in the months after he saw his friends shot down over Iraq.

Yes, these Sacramento Kings are good enough to win without Chris Webber.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department says that marijuana dispensaries and licensed growers in states with medical marijuana laws could face prosecution for violating federal drug and money-laundering laws.

So by now most of us in the Valley of the Sun are over being steamed — I’m talking about indoors — that point guard Steve Nash was traded by the Phoenix Suns to the locally hated Los Angeles Lakers for four high-up draft picks in the next three years.

“‘You get to ask the questions you want. I get to give the answers I want.’ That quote could have come from the current U.S. President, not a GOP candidate attempting to be open.”

Let me get this straight, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Somali Islamic insurgents can torture, behead, burn and drag American military men on video but a bunch of Marines who have had to pick up the body parts of their I.E.D.-blown up buddies are in trouble for whizzing on some dead Taliban attackers? Sadly, our resident R.I.N.O. Senator, John ‘Last Hurrah' McCain whines that it ‘makes me so sad.' Will President Obama rise to the bait and ‘apologize' once again to the Muslim world?"

Handel's 'Messiah'

Plenty of subgenres fall under the "mystery" umbrella, including cozies written by Agatha Christie, humorous crime capers by Donald Westlake and Carl Hiaasen, and political thrillers by Tom Clancy and Vince Flynn.

Chandler has $30,000 this year for matching grants for local nonprofit groups putting on public events.