The sun is out, the skies are blue and we’re deep into Spring Training. But I live here in Mudville, and there is no joy in baseball 2025. ‘Twas not always thus. There was a…
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Before Diversity, Equity & Inclusion there was Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action programs took off at the end of the '60s in direct response to the civil rights movement. The bosses set aside for Black people…
It was a show that forever changed not just the entertainment industry but the world. As the Sunday afternoon hour approached for the start of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony, rumors swept down the Red…
“Father,” mother would say turning away from the telephone, “it’s a D.B.” And that only meant one thing when I was a little girl growing up in Peru, Indiana in the 1910s: a deadbeat. Father…
Back in the early 2000s, I was a party to a couple of short-lived and ill-conceived lawsuits brought by Leona Williams’ Pinoleville Tribal Council. Both of these were related to my election to the Interim…
I have been in a place of change and introspection for the last month and a half after losing people I love — one being my client who suffered from dementia, and the other ending…
About Tim Lincecum… Just like a drinker to assume he was stoned when you saw him have an off-day! On behalf of the Defense Committee I steer you to the AVA’s account of Lincecum’s bust…