Before 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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Street Talk: Faces of the fallen emerge after we learn the details of the crime
Covering 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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Talk of the Town: Can’t get enough of your cheeseburger, baby
More on my deep basso voice In response to an item from last week, more readers announced that they, too, were surprised that my voice was rather deep — I’m practically Barry White over here — and not all high like Pee-wee Herman’s. This is a marvel to me. My main concern is my writer’s […]
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Street Talk: ‘Timmy’s adventures in school-skipping’
I 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.
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Mold, a blackened cell, water buckets and tales of headless skeletons: A tour of the 165-year-old Androscoggin County Courthouse
While the ghastly remains of a cell where a jail inmate may have burned alive is disturbing, it’s not the most troubling thing you’ll see on a tour of the quaint, but decrepit old building.
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Talk of the Town: My deep basso voice
Dollars and sense Oh, this is rich. Ever since I wrote a story about some local folks who received their stimulus checks in unsealed envelopes, I’ve been getting emails from people who want MY advice about their own financials. How should they go about inquiring about the status of their checks? How should they proceed […]
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Street Talk: Who needs a shovel when you’ve got pure rage?
What’s worse is that now ordinary people like possibly you are talking about the coming storm, too, so I have to employ my black belt level talent for denial everywhere I go.
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Talk of the town: Cold as a what, now?
It’s cold I know it’s cold because EVERY SINGLE TIME I step outside, I declare: “Holy $#!@#! It’s !#@! cold!” That’s the scientific way to know for sure that it’s $#!@#! cold. This is exactly how Lord Kelvin, the physicist William Thompson, discovered in 1892 that it was $#!@#! cold outside his lab over there […]
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Street Talk: Weird scenes inside the new normal
You know you’re in weird times when … a dinner order is conducted like an arms deal.
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Talk of the Town: Your guide to healthy living
Man, this is a rough time of year for writing this column.