Consistent with the modest character of this province at the center of a country that revels in modesty, a modest commemorative sits in front of a modest two-story home. Right here, at 814 Saskatchewan Crescent in the Nutana residential neighborhood of Saskatoon, rests a small historical plaque that for months of the year is covered […]

So here’s my question: Why would a conscientious citizen ever again trust anything published in Rolling Stone? To me, the diligent professors at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism went too easy on the magazine’s reporters and editors. Rolling Stone’s doomed article about a make-believe gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house was […]

Two Native Americans, fired from their jobs at a rehab center because their blood tested positive for mescaline, applied for unemployment benefits. Despite explaining the drug resulted from their religious use of peyote, they were rejected. They sued the state of Oregon, and their case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Though it recognized the […]

For most who celebrate the holiday, Easter has come and gone. But for the world’s Orthodox Christian community, including the many Orthodox who live locally, the holiday, which they also call Pascha and that celebrates Jesus’ resurrection, is this Sunday. It is a celebration of life everlasting, and a time to reflect and renew one’s […]

The Record Journal of Meriden (Conn.), April 1: It’s difficult to imagine a more terrifying situation than an airline pilot locked out of the cockpit in midair. The co-pilot isn’t responding to knocks at the door, or pleas from the pilot to open it. Passengers on the packed jet take notice. The plane begins a […]

Think about this, immigrants have been promised freebies from the United States of America so they have left their county to come to Maine to live off the government and now Maine’s government is going to stop the freebies. They are upset because they will have to work and earn a living or go back […]

Finally the urge was overwhelming. I just had to answer one of your correspondents who obsessively writes to you. I refer ”“ and everyone should have guessed by now ”“ to Frank Novotny. See “Reader’s Forum” from April 7. Now if printing his usual diatribes is meant to amuse us, then I concede he is […]

I’m not a doctor, but I play one in a column. This means I get to identify new diseases and diagnose them accordingly. I possess no advanced degrees, have no medical training, and become squeamish at the sight of needles, but because I’m playing a doctor, I get to make all the rules. Unsurprisingly, the […]