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'The blog has made Glab into a hip town crier, commenting on everything from local politics and cultural happenings to national and international events, all rendered in a colorful, intelligent, working-class vernacular that owes some of its style to Glab’s Chicago-hometown heroes Studs Terkel and Mike Royko.' -- David Brent Johnson in Bloom Magazine

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757 Words: Inventive America

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. In [ ]

1040 Words: Science Guy

Ötzi could have been the star of the show Tuesday night at science cafe. But he wasn t. The night belonged to Alex Straiker, the research scientist who noses into the micro-realm of the brain at Indiana University. Specifically, Straiker investigates cannabinoids and neurons and how the former affects the latter. You want to know why [ ]

977 Words: Comstock

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. By [ ]

900 Words: Pioneer

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. A [ ]

820 Words: The Ultimate Lowlight?

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. So, [ ]

It Takes a Community

Publication date for my book, How Hard Could It Be? The Stories of WFHB, is coming tantalizingly near. Just a few short weeks ago, I got an advance copy of it and, as luck would have it, ran into WFHB board president Emily Jackson in the parking lot of the Monroe County Public Library that [ ]

1074 Words: Gun-Barrel Politics

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. Here s [ ]

532 Words: Too Civil

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. So [ ]

581 Words: A Most Important Life

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. In [ ]

890 Words: A Tough Guy President & Bullshit

AMERICA 250 My series on the highlights and lowlights of American history, marking this nation’s 250th birthday. The whole idea being we, as a nation, have done great things and we’ve done rotten things. And sometimes the things we’ve done have been both great and rotten. We are, to be sure, all too human. A [ ]