My latest Metro New York op-ed (at 400 words apiece, they’re really more op-aphorisms) takes a shot at digging beneath the surface of baseball’s steroid scandal, or at least coming up with some new topics of conversation aside from whether … Continue reading
Still nothing on the direct-link front, so to read my weekly Metro NY op-ed, you’ll need to continue to resort to the page image version. This week’s topic: the recent changes to the city’s Gifted and Talented program, and my … Continue reading
Here’s Emily Friedman of ABC News going all spoilery in her piece on the controversy over “The Golden Compass”: As Lyra gets closer to her goal of reaching the Magisterium – located in the alternate universe of Bolvanger – she … Continue reading
Starting today, I’m going to be writing a weekly op-ed each Monday for Metro New York, which for the uninitiated is one of New York’s two free daily papers. (Metro is most readily identified as “the green one.”) For my … Continue reading
From today’s “public schedule” for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: *7:45 AM Has Coffee with Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) * FYI Only. The Mayor will not address the press. Someone at the mayor’s press office presumably edited out the rest … Continue reading
The wheels of academic presses grind slow but fine, but I’m very pleased to announce that the newly revised and expanded edition of Field of Schemes is scheduled for release by University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books on April 1. (Pre-ordering … Continue reading
Here’s another story that popped up on Google News, and which caught my eye because I couldn’t make head or tail of the lede: The ex-wife of a Bolingbrook police sergeant found drowned in her bathtub three years ago was … Continue reading
Transcribing quotes seems to especially vexing for some journalists. Here’s today’s Boston Globe quoting Mitt Romney: “The monster is this McCain-Feingold bill and it has to be repealed and it just points how in infective it has been in removing … Continue reading
For the latest Village Voice Education Supplement, I explore the growing phenomenon of parents in some NYC neighborhoods carting their kids en masse to other boroughs for grade school: Each weekday morning, the commute begins: Carfuls and trainloads of Brooklynites … Continue reading
Stagehands at most Broadway theaters are on strike, and here’s how Newsday reported the story today: The stagehands’ union took its cause to the public yesterday, the second day of a strike that has shut 27 Broadway theaters and cost … Continue reading