by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 24, 2009 | News
Last Sunday, bells, drums, gongs and horns at churches, synagogues and mosques the world over sounded 350 times to tell the world to lower the volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. It was a plea for global cooperation to control climate...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 14, 2010 | News
If you saw a man beating another man on the street, you’d probably call the police.But what if the man doing the beating was himself a police officer? Maybe you’d get your video camera. That’s what one unnamed bystander did on Nov. 27, capturing an...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 29, 2009 | News
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has given us all a holiday present. The Democrat from California got a bill through the House that will lower the volume of TV commercials to the level of the program carrying them instead of letting them spout unbearably shrill, disruptive...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 14, 2010 | News
What does the familiar assurance that the U.S. is the richest country in the world mean in times like these? Look at individual Americans just now and you see more and more signs of psychically stressful, health-threatening want. One such sign is the growing number of...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 31, 2009 | News
Valley Advocate Senior Writer Maureen Turner sent me a teasing email last week to ask me if I planned to write a farewell column to Larry McDermott, the longtime editor and, since 1999, publisher of the Springfield Republican. "Did I dream this," Turner...
