This is the grave of Luther Standing Bear. Born on the Spotted Tail Agency in South Dakota in 1868, Matȟó Nážiŋ, or Luther as he became known in the white world. Standing Bear grew up at the very end of Lakota autonomy on the Plains...
Author: Erik Loomis
All Hail King Jokic! A week after it looked like Denver was on the ropes, having sleepwalked through the series with the Lakers and then getting their asses handed to.
Going back to the Clinton administration, Democrats have sought to bolster their environmental credentials by creating large national monuments in the West. This is great. The problem though is that.
Now this is an interesting idea coming out of New York: Labor unions, corporate whistleblowers and — in some cases — individual workers would be able to pursue enforcement of wage theft claims under legislation pushed by Democrats and workers' rights groups this session, The legislation proposes a...
This is the grave of Ben Olcott. Born in 1872 in Keithsburg, Illinois, he grew up out there and then moved to Chicago after high school. In 1891, he decided.
A word on the person who I considered the greatest living writer. Alice Munro's stories always touched me deeply, going back to when I first read them about 20 years.
This is the grave of Darren McGavin. Born in 1922 in Spokane, Washington, William Richardson did not have an easy raising. His parents divorced when he was young and his father got custody. But the father was a traveling salesman. He just dropped the kid...
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
Ha ha, of course not, free market baby! Even as it has become increasingly clear that the bird flu outbreak on the nation’s dairy farms began months earlier — and.
Again, it was so great that leading Democrats went all-in to protect Henry Cuellar from more progressive challengers. After all, you can't get this kind of quality Democrat anywhere, as his old friends flipping on him in court demonstrate. Two political consultants agreed to plead...
On May 13, 1874, a man in New York named Charles Walker was arrested for working his dog on a cider press. This is a chance to talk about the.
This is the grave of Eddie Collins. Born in 1883 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Collins started working in vaudeville by his early 20s. He was just a guy doing.