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Nottoway to Make a Good Impression
If you visit the website of Nottoway Plantation, a resort hotel, you'll see a photo of a half-dozen people dressed in antebellum finery. It's a plug for Nottoway's new mystery theater evening: The actors play members of the Randolph family who built the property. Or...
From Nurses and Students, a New Assault on Inequality
From the White House to the Vatican, everyone these days seems to be talking about income inequality. But our politics hasn't kept up. Concrete proposals that could actually narrow the gap between the rich and the rest of us haven't yet moved onto our public policy...
Higher Hopes for Hemp
Take a moment and look around you. Look up. The sky hasn't fallen, has it? People in Colorado are buying marijuana — legally — and civilization hasn't come crashing to its knees. At this point, we've all seen TV journalists reporting from Colorado dispensaries, noting...
Flashing Too Little Editorial Integrity
Attention, class. Here's today's new word: "Native advertising." OK, that's two words. But it's one concept, and it has nothing to do with indigenous peoples. Rather, it's a phrase sprung on us by the wonky wordsmiths of Internet media, who also refer to it as "brand...
The End of Civilization as We Know It
Do Look This Gift Horse in the Mouth
It's still a mystery how Santa Claus got it down the chimney, but Bastrop got a Christmas present boys can only dream about: a big honking, steel-clad, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) truck. But Bastrop isn't a 6-year-old boy, and this truck is no toy. Bastrop...
This Week in OtherWords: January 3, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson describes the relief she's feeling thanks to California's rollout of the Affordable Care Act and Andrew Korfhage suggests divesting from fossil fuels as a New Year's resolution. We're also sharing a classic Donald Kaul column...
Seeing Through the Fog
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was full of tough talk when he visited the island kingdom of Bahrain in early December. The United States, he vowed, will continue to guard “the free flow of energy and commerce” from the Persian Gulf and keep Iran nuclear-free,...
A Step the Government Can Take to Reduce Inequality
Americans don't like Big Business. And they don't like government waste. Put the two together, and we have a nightmare scenario: public money lining the pockets of corporate bigwigs. Even as federal government workers' pay is repeatedly targeted for reductions and...
Why I’m Breathing Easier in 2014
For the first time in years, I've got health insurance. Before now, my "insurance" was nothing more than exercise, a healthy diet, and medicinal herbs. I've gotten insured through the Affordable Care Act without dealing with a buggy website because I live in...
