The Best Stories You've nEver Read #38
A Newspaper Can't Love You Back
David Simon's article in Esquire describes quite vividly the disillusionment many journalists feel at the nation's newspapers. If Simon's name is at all familiar to you, he's the creator of The Wire, the hit television series. Simon is a former reporter at the Baltimore Sun.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #37
From the Charlotte Observer:
A community of mothers is grieving for Jennifer Bunich.
Though many of them never met her, she was like a friend. She shared the kind of intimacies friends share -- confiding about her 2-year-old daughter, Claire, and her husband, Boris, and the demands of being a working mom.
She offered these glimpses of herself, and more, in an online journal she and her friend Jennifer Plym took turns writing, with advice about diapers, doctors, day care. Jen B and Jen P, they called themselves.
Around their Web site, mothers in Charlotte gathered. Then on Feb. 4, Jennifer Bunich died...
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #36
This piece is lol funny and not as predictable in tone and content as you might think, given that it was written by a self-described ultra-liberal novelist, Ann Hood.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #35
Many worthy stories have been written in the aftermath of the horrific killings of two Kirkwood police officers and three city officials, but I found none as insightful, honest and refreshing as Deb Peterson's column.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #34
Aaron McCown was the kind of coach and role model that many parents dream about. His work as a football coach with pre-adolescents in his East Baltimore inner city neighborhood was so profound that he was recognized with a community service award from Johns Hopkins University. What many people didn't know was that McCown had a record, convictions for drug possession and robbery. He has since lost both his day job and his coaching job. He was back in jail recently stemming from an altercation at a football game. Still many parents would like to see McCown return to coaching their kids.
To learn why click on the link above to read the story by Jeff Barker of the Baltimore Sun..
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #33
That cricket hiding in your basement may be the next Pavarotti... or a beauty pageant winner. Of course, you'd have to travel to China for anyone to appreciate your insect's fine qualities. There crickets are all the rage among hobbyists. They enter them in contests, buy china and furniture for them. On the downside, some Chinese breed crickets as fighters and gamble on them. Others have been doping them up so they sing better. Read Barbara Demick's story in the Los Angeles Times.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #32
The images we have of drug houses are those in ravaged inner cities or perhaps in a rural outpost. But read this story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune about $300,000 suburban homes that marijuana dealers are snapping up and using to grow their crops. Their neighbors are entirely unaware, but not, as it turns out, unaffected.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #31
A serial killer lectures a forensics class.
Hunter Jesperson was the guest lecturer at Duquesne University's Forensics Investigation I class during the fall semester speaking on the topic of murder. Jesperson is quite the expert . He is the imprisoned serial killer of at least eight women in six states between 1990 and 1995. He spoke by phone from the Oregon State Penitentiary to the students in Pittsburgh and also provided letters. This three part-series tells the story of how the students at Duquesne got in touch with Jesperson and what they learned from him.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #30
In the last doll, the memories live on...
Today's entry comes from a collection of holiday stories appearing in the Charlotte Observer. "The Gift" is a series about the things we've received, the things we've given, the things we remember, says the Observer. Here's one of them: Every Christmas Penny Standridge's father gave her a doll. When she was 20, he gave her one unlike all the others.Be sure to click on the video that accompanies this story. Very moving.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #29
Emotional trek to Sierra crash site for man who lost his legs at age 10.
It was one of the more miraculous rescues ever accomplished. A 10-year-old boy survived a plane crash in the Northern California wilderness in the midst of a deadly winter storm. He remained trapped in the plane with his two dead parents for five days, sucking on handfuls of snow to stay alive. Searchers figured they were probably on a recovery mission, not a rescue. But they found Donnie Priest alive. That was 26 years ago. Recently Priest returned with the men who saved him to the mountain where he lost his parents and life began anew. He climbed to the rescue site on two prosthetic legs. Click on the link above to read this compelling tale in the San Francisco Chronicle.
-- Dick Weiss
