Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me
National Public Radio has a popular program called “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” During part of the show, celebrity guests tell far-fetched stories and try to fool listeners who have to guess which stories are true and which are false. Wanna play? Let’s. Here is a series of “breaking news reports.” Try and guess which are real and which ones might be fake.
Strategy so far has been disappointing
Why do we have a municipal government? City government represents multiple interdependent communities and holds the community together by managing the boundaries and continuity of municipal life, i.e. fire and police, water, roads, etc. Like an orchestra conductor, government directs its resources to maintain...
Newsroom Notebook: What makes a great headline?
Newsroom Notebook is a new monthly column written by one of our staff members.
Newsroom Notebook: Title Case
Everyone has things they love or hate about their jobs. Me, I love writing headlines. A headline can make or break a story, which is to say it can make a reader pause to read a story or pass it by.
Someday We’ll Laugh About This . . . Right? Siblings, the first friends of our childhoods
We recently celebrated the life of one of my husband’s uncles, with a lovely family gathering held at Matt’s dad’s house.
Mayor Foppoli discusses town with Windsor Dems
At the Aug. 22 meeting of the Windsor Democratic Club, Mayor Dominic Foppoli spoke on his life in Windsor, his role as a town council member and mayor, and the town’s accomplishments and challenges.
Wealthy questions for voters
The California Primary, when we make our first votes for the next U.S. president, is still seven months away. But there are real events happening right now that we should remember when we walk into the voting booth in March 2020. Most of these...
Chicken’s in the kitchen but not to eat
It seems a good bet that if there is a chicken in residence anywhere where there has been a culture of reading children’s literature out loud, the name Henny-Penny is naturally a popular choice for that fowl. Oddly, it isn’t true for the other names in this old English Folk Tale. When was the last time you heard somebody call the Thanksgiving bird, “Turkey-lurkey”? Or how about “Goosey-poosey” and “Ducky-daddles”?
Arts & Entertainment
‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts
:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.
