College presidents across the nation want the legal drinking age reduced, saying the wait to 21 is pushing binge drinking underground and causing risky behavior. The debate is playing out locally.
I was 5 years old when I first learned about Harriett Tubman and the Underground Railroad. I felt an immediate connection to her, and I??™ve carried it with me all my years. Lady Tubman reminded her followers that they deserved a fair chance at life and freedom.
"To all you mothafuckas that juss can't tellI'm a Pisces but I'd rather be a killa whale." Or so the San Francisco underground rapper told us while still under the moniker of Dre Dog in the mid-nineties. Known as Andre Nickatina ever since, he's steadily delivered an album-per-year pace of
FARGO (AP) - A leaky natural gas pipe blamed for a Sept. 2 house explosion here that injured 13 members of a family was of a type that was the subject of a warning bulletin nine years ago.
Spring Lake Park City Council members and staff reacted positively this month to a proposed senior assisted living facility to be constructed on Osborne Road.
A leaky natural gas pipe blamed for a Sept. 2 house explosion in south Fargo was the same kind involved in a blast three years ago in Cottage Grove, Minn., which prompted Minnesota to launch a program with Xcel Energy to replace the pipe throughout the state by 2010. Advertisement: GRAND FORKS SUBARU / KIA Check Our Inventory Online!
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As a freshman congressman in the early 1980s, John McCain did not disclose his connections to a controversial group that was implicated in a secretive plot to supply arms to Nicaraguan militia groups during the Iran-Contra affair.
Here's a recap of the March 11 Town Board meeting. Supervisor Alexander Gromack and Town Board members John Maloney, Shirley Lasker and Frank Borelli were present. Information for this report was provided by the Town Clerk's Office.
The Olympics is meant to promote solidarity ??“ but the 2012 Games has become a question of faith for some in East London as Christianity and Islam vie to become the most visible religion around the 500-acre park.
Letters: John Harris's piece on David Cameron's penchant for 'leftwing' acts of the 80s (Hands off our music!, G2, March 18) seemed to swallow uncritically the idea that Paul Weller, Billy Bragg et al actually mean anything to the left
As this is written, the Beijing Communist authorities are in the process of using brute force to stem a tide of frustration and violence from a downtrodden Tibetan population.
I'm in trouble again. The proximate cause is not my failure to accept the fact that Barack Obama is as good as we're going to get as president given our fouled up election system, but that I'm not enthusiastic about it. As a fellow journalist put it, ''You
After their sold-out concert last month, legendary American punk band NOFX met with Beijing's leading musicians at the trendy club D22. Music is moving forward as quickly as everything else in this wildly interesting country, and as they interacted drunkenly with the cream of Beijing's underground, members of NOFX expressed surprise at the dizzying speed of change.
Direct Action to Stop the War holds a march and rally on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. Organizing begins 7:30am at Market and Sansome Sts. March and rally 5-8pm. Civic Center, Polk and Grove Sts., SF. 510-984-2566, 415-864-5153. www.actagainstwar.net, http://answersf.org/.
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Hamas, the party that rules the Gaza Strip and launches rockets at Israel, has a message for its Palestinian residents: Thank you for smoking. Cigarette taxes are among the few sources of income Hamas has left.
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