I’m not going to lie to you. I was a terrible paperboy. If you were on my route and wanted to skim the headlines before work, you were probably out of luck. I’d have it to you by noon, though, I swear. Maybe a little later if my bicycle chain broke or if I was […]
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Street Talk: I can help you with your many, many, many, many problems
Some weeks, I wish I had an advice column. No more wracking my brain for fresh ideas or fetching old columns out of the recycle bin and hoping nobody will notice. Remember the time I did that? No? Well, just forget I said anything about it, then. Yup, an advice column would be just the […]
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Street Talk: The mind wanders as educationers prattle on
So, I’m sitting in the Auburn Council Chamber of Doom and listening to the chatter from the neatly arranged group at the front of the room. Educationers, I think they call them. Or Superintenderlings. These are the men and women who decide what goes on in our schools, and my editors tell me that’s important. […]
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Street Talk: Better-late-than-never tips for surviving the storm, sort of
Good morning. It snowed. Look outside your window, and you will see evidence of this. I always back up my assertions with facts, you know. I’m a journalist. I had planned my usual report on world financial markets and parenting tips for this space, but in light of recent meteorological events, I’m making a sharp […]