BEN column (Bridgeton News)Good morning! First forecast of wet snow this year for Tuesday. But, it comes with an "or. As in 50 percent chance of rain or wet snow in the afternoon.
Legendary Olympic recording studio to burn out (Independent)Olympic Studios in Barnes, West London, holds a special place in my heart. It's the first recording studio I visited in the late Seventies, only to find glam-rockers Slade – at a low career ebb – having a blazing row. It's where the Rolling Stones drifted into psychedelia in 1967 with their half-baked concept album Their Satanic Majesties Request, before going back to basics and staking their ...
Anxiety creeps onto the menu (Portland Tribune)Barbara Woods has served up chicken nuggets and nachos at Southeast Portland’s Whitman Elementary for 10 years now, and loves her job. But every holiday season she sees something on her students’ faces that saddens her: looks of worry about how they’ll eat when they’re on ...
Napoleon's piles: How footnotes changed history (Independent)Ronnie of the Commies? Ronald Reagan, the slayer of the "Evil Empire", might have been ruined before his political career began had his attempt to join the American Communist Party succeeded. He was rejected because the Communists thought him too dim. It emerged in a 1999 authorised biography that he had tried to join in 1938. Some of his closest friends were members. One, scriptwriter ...
In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery (The Nation via Yahoo! News)The Nation -- A delegation from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers recently took time during its "Northeast Tour for Fair Food" to visit The Nation offices in New York City. It was an honor to meet with them, to learn more about their work helping workers in the fields of Florida. We spent some time discussing how The Nation could continue to expose the working and living conditions of migrant ...
