on the edge

A short drive up into the hills, there's a small pocket of woodland on the edge of an upmarket suburb that could reveal a terrible secret.

It has become almost a routine part of politics over the past decade: Every now and then, Congress reaches an impasse on funding the government and it teeters on the edge of shutting down.

The family wants lawmakers and the public to understand how seemingly abstract healthcare decisions involving billions of dollars, and made 2,000-plus miles away in Washington, have brought new financial turmoil to a family that’s already on the edge financially.

Taylor Feltner, who lived with his wife in a smoke-damaged Pasadena home on the edge of Altadena, would like to stay in the area because his wife’s Altadena family is a big part of their lives.

The Glasgow tree narrowly beat the King of Limbs Oak that inspired a Radiohead album, and the photographic Lonely Tree, which sits on the edge of the Llyn Padarn lake in North Wales.