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5 Jun 2023
“Three reformers, all women, were messing with the gravity of things.” @arax_mark reports on a new movement fighting the powers that be in the San Joaquin Valley.
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28 Jun 2023
These Masters mile times could be read as age-defying achievements. Or they are the gifts of age: self-awareness, discipline, fortitude, resilience, and the energy of history applied in the moment. usatf.org/news/2023/2023-usa…
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19 Jun 2023
“During his time in Washington, Gedda covered every secretary of state from Dean Rusk to Condoleezza Rice, carving out a niche for himself as an expert on Latin America and Cuba.” Matt Lee @APDiploWriter reports.
19 Jun 2023
George Gedda, an Associated Press reporter whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades, has died. apnews.com/article/george-ge…
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18 Jun 2023
“Globalization, seen in recent decades as unstoppable a force as gravity, is clearly evolving in unpredictable ways.” @PatcohenNYT reports.
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8 Jun 2023
Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊
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9 Jun 2023
Don't forget that Donald Trump seems likely to be indicted for a third time in August. rb.gy/42s6f
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9 Jun 2023
Pat Robertson, who forged the alliance between conservative Christians and the GOP, died this week. I look back at how he and Jerry Falwell changed the religious and political landscape.
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7 Jun 2023
“The intrusion of a business ‘ethic’ of maximizing revenue has once again trumped the traditional service ethic of health care.” — @johngeymanmd
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6 Jun 2023
Russia has blown up Ukraine’s massive Kakhovka. The resulting floods threaten catastrophic destruction, human and environmental.
Another war crime by Putin’s forces.
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5 Jun 2023
On this day in 1989 I grabbed the video cassette containing all the famous pictures of the Tiananmen massacre inc the tank man & walked down to the Beijing Hotel lobby. A cop came over to arrest me but a burst of fire outside distracted him & I slipped past. We got the pictures out via Hong Kong.
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5 Jun 2023
On my last official day as a staff writer at the @NewYorkTimes, it was a pleasure to mark the moment by talking with @SimonGraf1 and to go old school and read the papers, just like we did at my first #RolandGarros in 1991
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4 Jun 2023
“An estimated 30,000 people of Doukhobor descent reside in Canada, and for decades they lived ascetic, communal lives reminiscent of the Quakers or Mennonites, though suffused with Russian culture and traditions.” @DanBilefsky reports.
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3 Jun 2023
Women clergy lead congregations to repurpose underutilized properties for social impact. @YonatShimron reports.
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28 Apr 2023
My first story for NPR was in 1991, 32 years later today is my last.
It was a great run, adios amigos.
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29 Apr 2023
Nobody’s going to make a movie about reporters at home with their cursors.
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10 Jul 2022
At a low-turnout meeting in a small New England town, a surprise motion passes to cut the school budget in half - forcing people to realize what they had taken for granted. Here's my story: a cautionary tale for these times, or maybe a reflection. nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/cr…
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1 Jul 2022
After 42 years on the Chicago media beat, I'm calling it a day. Thanks to all of you for your loyalty and trust. bit.ly/3OPsCbW
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3 Jul 2022
Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan (from @AP) apnews.com/article/e50af08aa…
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2 Jul 2022
Call them the Disunited States: Pressed by Supreme Court decisions diminishing rights that liberals hold dear & expanding those cherished by conservatives, the US is drifting apart, with diametrically opposed social, environmental and health policies.
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18 Jun 2022
Mark Shields, the longtime political commentator on @NewsHour, died today at 85. Here’s my obituary of him for @nytimes:
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