Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal news reporter and columnist and the author of several works of fiction. He sleeps until noon each day and regrets nothing. Mark has several exciting hobbies, all of which are none of your business. Seriously, you don’t want to know. This page is a collection of his Street Talk and Talk of the Town columns.
Street Talk
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April 13Fire, I would come to accept, is as cruel and indiscriminate as any force on earth. It will take without compunction a child not yet old enough to walk on his own or an old woman too infirm to save herself.
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April 6In its way, the press is the very symbol of how news is supposed to work.
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March 31Street Talk: Potshots, potholes, public nudity and pond passion: Ahhhhhh, spring!
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April 2
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March 3It's no secret that I have what is known in zoology circles — and by my own team of therapists — as dog envy. If I see a strange dog on the street, on a hiking trail, or eating from of an overturned trash can at the curb, I immediately want to play with it, giving no thought at all as to where it's been.
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February 24Before walking into a single church or making a simple phone call, I become filled with self-doubt, suddenly very vividly aware my own ignorance.
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February 17Covering killings is like putting bloody puzzle pieces together. In the early hours, we're still limited to 'victims' and 'perps' and all the other generic terminology from the grim vernacular.
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February 9I feel sympathy for kids these days, whose lives have been so disrupted, and their realities so warped, that to skip school, all they are required to do is close their laptop lids and go sit in the living room.
Talk of the Town
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April 2
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