Glancing Back for April 27: Some Charleston residents oppose street plan Germany players celebrate after Andreas Brehme, left on ground, scores the winning goal in the World Cup soccer final match against Argentina, in the Olympic Stadium, in Rome, July 8, 1990. Andreas ... 04/27/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead 1904 — Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of seventeen, hits a home run and double for the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League. 1905 — Jack McCarthy of the Cubs threw out ... 04/25/2024 - 3:06 am | View Link
Glancing Back for April 24: Memorial Hospital grounds cleaned up Whether the purchasers will scrap the road or improve it and operate as a carrier is not known, but it is believed that the latter course will be followed, as unusual opportunities are offered if the ... 04/24/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
The part of Canada unlike any other Canada is renowned for its dramatic mountain scenery, but the western province of Saskatchewan is famously flat. What it lacks in altitude it makes up for in many other ways. 04/23/2024 - 9:09 pm | View Link
Nanaimo race walker qualifies for Olympics Lundman collapsed at the end of the race, having given it all she had. And it was enough. She has qualified to represent Canada this summer in Paris at the Olympic games. 04/23/2024 - 2:30 pm | View Link
Flute extraordinaire JJim Walker and his band Free Flight blew Johnny Carson's mind on the Tonight Show back in 1982 with their melding of jazz and classical.
Walker has had a stellar career playing his beloved instrument, but was also a world class educator who retired a few years ago as a professor of practice in USC Thornton’s Winds and Percussion department.
Two years in a row, he received the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Academy itself famous for its GRAMMY Awards.
While Donald Trump plots to be a dictator on Day One, Balaji Srinivasan and his wealthy tech bros are plotting a different version of authoritarianism and ethnic cleansing, one that does not require a presidential campaign.
Gil Duran wrote about this oligarch for The New Republic:
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan.
We've already established here that Trump lawyer Alina Habba is trash. And Habba has established that she's ridiculously stupid, too. Habba was asked in a relatively recent interview whether she would rather be pretty or smart. She said, "Oh easy, pretty … I can fake being smart." That's not true at all.
Pro-life activist Randall Terry was nominated as the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate, Ballot Access News reports.
He is likely to be on the ballot in battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.