With the Winter Olympics just around the corner—and on the heels of The District Weekly’s recent story by former Olympic hopeful Diana Bosetti about the oft-damaging hidden aspects of the world’s most-graceful sport—this piece in the New York Times caught my attention.
Basically, it’s about the obsessive, deluded stalkers that exist among skating’s fans—and how the Internet is making [...]

Columnist Frank Rich of the New York Times lays out the aftermath of the Democrats’ so-called Massachusetts Massacre—and the real crisis of United States leadership it reveals—in the latest of his wonderful Sunday columns. Nobody is writing political analysis that matters to most Americans better  than Rich. Take a read.

Once labeled “the eighth wonder of the world” by none other than Cary Grant—a British expatriate himself—our own Queen Mary was also the fastest way to cross the Atlantic Ocean in its day, a day that reportedly ended in July 1952.
For its speed, the ship gets a nod from the New York Times

Third-generation Long Beach resident Charles Moore, captain of the research vessel the Alguita—and pioneering researcher of the Pacific Ocean garbage patch also known as the gyre—is featured in the New York Times.

Spoiler alert: save this until you’ve watched Sunday’s “Mad Men” episode
The New York Times was, thankfully, ready for Sunday night’s long-awaited episode of American Movie Classics’ hit series Mad Men, which featured—finally—the wedding of Sterling Cooper founder Roger Sterling’s daughter Margaret: on Nov. 23, 1963, one day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy [...]

Recently departed Long Beach Police Chief Anthony Batts is the subject of a story on the New York Times website. Batts, of course, starts his new gig as Oakland police chief on Monday.
And, measured against Oak-town’s history of, er, policing, Batts and Long Beach don’t look too bad. Examples:
“There are fewer than 800 officers in [...]

In the aftermath of a crash that killed two people, Utah recently passed the nation’s toughest law to crack down on texting behind the wheel. Offenders now face up to 15 years in prison. The New York Times has the story.

There’s not much new here for those of us who have followed the tale of Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s (D-epressing) frequently bedraggled Sacramento house–which went into foreclosure and was resold before Richardson somehow wangled it back; and which recently has drawn the attention of the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Monday’s New York Times story on the matter [...]

We don’t cover Chino, but neither does the New York Times, and that didn’t stop them from covering this weekend’s Chino prison riot.
Hundreds were hurt, 55 were hospitalized, and fires rendered areas of the prison uninhabitable. Overcrowding, of course, was a major source of racial tensions that are believed to have sparked the riot.

This is what $89,000 buys you in today’s real estate market: the New York Times reports that the vacant Sumner Elementary School buildings in Topeka, Kansas–where, one day in the 1950s, African-American would-be third grader Linda Brown was refused enrollment based upon her race–have been purchased by the Rev. W. R. Portee, minister of a [...]