A property owner in Pennsylvania who was feuding with town officials killed three people last night at a town meeting. A reporter, who was new on the beat and attending his first town meeting, has this first-hand account.
I’ll say it: let’s celebrate Jeff Bezos purchase of the Washington Post.
Before going further let me acknowledge the potential downsides. Bezos is an outside buyer with no history in the news or newspaper business, something he readily acknowledges. More potentially worrisome, he’s the primary owner and CEO of Amazon, a company with deep stakes in numerous critical policy debates ranging from state sales tax policy, union organizing, worker rights and wages, the book and entertainment businesses, telecom, international trade, not to mention its unimaginably large footprint in the Internet cloud. Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post, ending the Graham family’s ownership after four generations.
I don’t know if there’s something akin to the marginal value of additional accusers. But in case you’re keeping track we’ve now got our 10th Filner accuser. In this episode Bob propositions the singer at a local Church benefit, asking her to perform a ‘private song.’
A Cleveland man was trying to stop a friend from driving drunk when the would-be drunk driver shot him in the chest.
Fox is amazed that the rest of the world doesn’t find the same things scandalous that they do.
Earlier this year I described how my wife, who was born in Israel but came to the US as a toddler, had stumbled on new and unsettling facts about her family’s fate during the Holocaust while at first researching my family tree. A great deal is known about the details and history of the Holocaust for reasons which I’ll shed some light on in a moment. But individual families often had only vague and incomplete information about the fate of specific individuals. Often there was no information at all other than that the people were never heard from again. Read More