Citation at the end of this entry.
'I get my fix in a 2-newspaper town'
Some people crave java shots each morning. I hunger for newsprint. And, thankfully, I get my fix in a two-newspaper town, where I savor a robust mix of stories.
If MediaNews Group were to water down the Pioneer Press, the Twin Cities would not only become more like Sanka than a Starbucks espresso roast, but a community and regional artery would be severed.
As a kid in northern Wisconsin, I spent hours at the library, where I'd often find the Saint Paul newspaper and read news and see pictures from a place that had what my hometown didn't — skyscrapers, whales, a state Capitol, pro sports and more. That newspaper opened a window.
The Twin Cities has cranked out some pretty good wordsmiths. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, CBS' Eric Sevareid, "Prairie Home Companion" Garrison Keillor, NPR's Michele Norris, Thomas Friedman and Ira Berkow of the New York Times, CNN's founding anchor Mary Alice Williams and its departing anchor Aaron Brown, and Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated's weekly lead-off hitter, have all put pen to paper here.
They, I believe — like me and every other Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reader — have benefited from twice the analyses, viewpoints, voices, angles, and pictures of most towns. But how can we be one of America's most literate communities if half of our words disappear?
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The program is always insulting with it's artificial voices to ? enhance ? human beings to watching the show?
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The drug 'issue' with Mexico is old. Fox was just going to make it leagal that's all especially since the USA won't allow Medical Marijuana.
This is just another example of border and national insecutiry. What's the name of that gamg from South America? M19 or M 13, something like that? What do you think their stock and trade is? Columbian Gold. This is nothing new. Fox was just decriminalizing from the Mexican side. He doesn't have recourse really. He doesn't have jails big enough or control of very violent border towns. Fox also recognizes there is an economy in the drug trade with the USA imports. So, Mexico just wants their courts freed up and their tourist trade intact. It's interesting thhis was a so called surprise to Bush. Interseting. I would say he is just plain out of touch.
Mexico's Fox won't sign drug law
ReutersWednesday, May 3, 2006; 8:59 PM
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox will not sign widely criticized narcotics legislation until Congress removes parts of the law that decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, his office said on Wednesday.
The president's office said the law would be sent back to Congress for revision.
I love the 'attitude' regarding CNN's glibness regarding the 911 families and the Moussoui verdict. This news team insists that Moussaoi is nobody in the terrorist network and that jailing him will be the same as any other dangrous criminal in our prisons. I would be surprised that would be the case. They
Jury Decides Against Execution for Moussaoui
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID STOUT
Published: May 3, 2006
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 — A federal court jury spared the life of Zacarias Moussaoui today, voting to send him to prison for the rest of his days rather than condemn him to death for the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001.
