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PublishedJuly 12, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: There are ghosts walking among us
Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: An identity stolen and not a soul to help
Street Talk: The biggest horror of them all in this sordid affair is that there seems to be no one in the world at all able or willing to extricate Riley from the ongoing nightmare.
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PublishedJune 28, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma
Street Talk: I'll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
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PublishedJune 20, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.
Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
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PublishedJune 5, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: What to yell in a crowded theater?
Street Talk: Fire is one of the most powerful forces on earth and yet, at best, we have two synonyms suitable for use when writing about it.
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PublishedMay 22, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Sure is quiet around here but don’t you dare say that around police
Street Talk: Police are a superstitious lot and as far as they're concerned, any utterance of the Q-word is bound to cause mayhem and ought to be a felony.
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PublishedMay 16, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: A former ‘putz’s’ graduation lament
Street Talk: After graduation, I spent eight or nine years just wandering in kind of a shabby, hedonistic daze.
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PublishedMay 9, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Online ugliness is the rule, not the exception
Street Talk: In the day when public discourse was conducted in a real-world environment, one could expect a punch in the nose if he resorted to the kind of trash talk we see as a matter of course online.
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PublishedMay 2, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Dope smuggling isn’t for the faint of heart
Street Talk: As long as there's the potential for big money, somebody somewhere is willing to take the risk, and sheer numbers mean the odds are in their favor.
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PublishedApril 25, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Brother, can you spare a column idea?
Street Talk: I may not have the intellectual gusto to generate ideas of my own today, but plenty of you weirdos were happy to step up and do it for me.
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