Last week, my wife, Sally, and I dropped the kids at a friend's house and headed to Shelter Island for a night at the Pridwin Hotel and Cottages. (I recommend it.) We had cocktails before dinner at ...

In an Indiana warehouse area on Lafayette's north end, little plastic chips are fed into a machine to be colored red and spun into the shape of a drinking straw. As the long, continuous straw makes ...

Legislation filed Thursday would set guidelines for local government rules involving the materials used for drinking straws and stirrers. The measure (SB 958), sponsored by Sen. Jennifer Bradley, R- ...