The big news here is still the weather. All the newscasters keep using the phrase "arctic blast" to describe the temperatures that hover at or near freezing (at night--still around 60 during the day...). I wish they would stop; I really think that it makes them look stupid--especially when they say, "we've been hit by an icy, arctic blast: the high tomorrow is only 56; oh, and the rest of the country has been covered in ice by a winter storm--but it's only going to be 56 here!!!!" Someone should write a letter.