A 99-year-old woman died last week. Though I'd never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn't famous in the new way ...
Summer Slam a success Editor: The Good Times Music Summer Slam concert series was a raging success again this year, and there's a lot of thanks to go around! We'd like to thank all the community members who came out to listen, socialize, and have a great time all summer long! We'd also like to thank all our bands for making Wednesday evenings in Downtown Houghton magical! Bands that played were: Uncle Floyd, Del's Camino, Bling Crosby, Chad Borgen & The Collective, Willowby, Uncle Pete's Red Hot Review, The Jana Nyberg Group, Keweenaw Brewgrass, Lupine, and Split Shyft. We'd also ...
Harry Bosch, the Los Angeles homicide detective created by novelist Michael Connelly, lived and worked by this watchword: "Everybody counts or no one counts." As Bosch explains, "It means I bust my ass to make a case whether it's a prostitute or the mayor's wife. That's my rule." In ...
ABC stunned the media world on Wednesday by announcing they were suspending "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely after several ABC station groups withdrew their support for the show. It was a similar shock to CBS setting a cancellation date for "Late Show with Stephen Colbert." The Left went ...
Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future ...
To get beyond our current dysfunctional discourse, all Americans need to honor facts. No matter what we believe or how we spin it, this does not change the reality of a fact. You may believe, in the deepest part of your being, that the earth is flat. Fact: it is not, regardless of what you think. Fact: the United States is a secular nation, one in which one of its most revered values is that of religious freedom. We are not a Christion nation. The U.S. Constitution is the guiding document on which American citizenship is based. Not the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad Gita, or the ...
