Survey of the Day

Thanks to the frontier spirit that helped found this nation, hunting and fishing are pretty ingrained into the American psyche. But how many folks in the United States still participate in these outdoor activities?

History was made this week when Augusta National Golf Club announced it was admitting its first ever female members. Was this a monumental moment or an old club finally catching up with the times?

According to a new survey from Gallup, 66 percent of adults drink alcohol, up from 64 percent last year. But are these Americans who imbibe enjoying the occasional glass of wine or are they pounding beer after beer?

Thanks to the great recession more folks are living paycheck to paycheck than they were in rosier economic times.

There is a lot invested in professional sports, including time, money and talent. You have to put someone in charge of the talent, so what happens if they don’t produce right away?

Sometimes best friends have an interesting story about how they met. Sometimes they don’t. But, no matter what, to be best friends means you did meet at some point.

The ideal elevator passenger stands still with his eyes forward as he waits for his floor. However, during the countless elevator rides we take during our lives, we’ve all come across a fellow traveler whose behavior is less than ideal. So what are the most annoying things people do on an elevator?

Mars is in the news these days thanks to the Curiosity rover which recently landed on the red planet. The goal of the six-wheeled robot is to find signs of life on Mars, and NASA also hopes that its 23 month mission will increase public awareness of the space program. But will it rekindle interest in sending a manned mission to Mars?

When you hear about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it’s usually because one of its agents has aggressively searched someone they probably shouldn’t have searched so aggressively. But despite the drumbeat of negative stories surrounding the folks entrusted with our airport security the general public hasn’t turned on the TSA.

The two-and-a-half-month summer vacation that kids get was a mid-19th century compromise between rural school districts, which had children who needed to help out on the family farm, and urban districts, which often dealt with extreme heat in the summer.