As we were laying out the Free Press this holiday season, we were shocked by the sudden and untimely death of one-time Free Press writer, advertiser and friend, Joanna Demas-Way. Our condolences go to her husband, UFO bassist...
21 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- The president is a Texan, the governor is an Aggie, God's in His heaven, all's right with the world. And I want it noted for the record that I am doing my dead-level best to be cheerful about this revolting development....
21 January 2001
As golden anniversaries go, it's a somber occasion. In a forlorn
expanse of desert scarcely an hour's drive northwest of Las Vegas, on Jan.
27, 1951, the Nevada Test Site went into operation by exploding an atomic bomb.
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14 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oh, dear. The Borking of Linda Chavez is leading to another
round of sulking, hurt feelings and general acrimony, making the upcoming fight over the
confirmation of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft even more...
10 January 2001
A surreal mixup disrupted CNN programming for a few moments on
Jan. 17 when the network switched to live coverage of Colin Powell. While
the retired general appeared on the screen, the audio was the voice of Sen.
Edward Kennedy at...
09 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Worst idea of 2001 so far: naming a newspaper columnist to the U.S. Cabinet. You really don't want columnists running the government. As any newspaper reporter can tell you, all newspaper columnists work maybe two hours a...
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