Month: August 2002

I was scrounging, unsuccessfully, through the depths of the closet looking for something I wanted to show my mom, “I know its here, I saw it last week when I organized this closet.” My mom laughed, “You have it all together, you just didn’t know where it’s at.” I did find the item eventually, but…

The solution seems obvious now, but it took 16 years, over $630,000 and innumerable hours of negotiations to find it. Once politicians and special interests groups accepted the obvious, they got up from the negotiating table, gathered up their trash and took it out back to dump. It did not look that easy back in…

The book’s scuffed green cover and brown pages reflected more than its age. Originally written in 1904, first in a 72 book series about the Bobbsey Twins, the reprint at one time belonged to the El Dorado Boys Club Library. It was last checked out in 1958 – a couple years before I read it…

It was one of those days at the news office. Our front page story told of an alleged domestic violence case where the victim was forced into a hole in the ground and covered with dirt up to her neck. The Associated Press wire added our story to their collection of shockingly, inhumane behavior reports.…