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Eight Days at the Races
With horse racing in decline, how does a small track like Ferndale survive?
by Bob Doran
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A Deadly Scum
The first sign that something was wrong with Joey, the Johnston family's beloved, hyperactive Blue Heeler cross, came as they were walking back up to ...
read >Notes from Underground
A couple of Saturdays ago, my friend Ken Malcomson and I had just sat down to interview Bernardine Dohrn and her husband, Bill Ayers, at ...
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Watch Them Fight
Occasionally you hear someone raise a stodgy moral objection to The Media's "horserace coverage" of politics. Let's briefly acknowledge that these grumpy scolds do indeed ...
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Ex-Hacks on the T-S
Editor: As a retired reporter, I frequently find myself in agreement with Media Maven Marcy Burstiner, but this time her broadside against the Times-Standard misses ...
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