Month: January 2017

BY JANE RAMSEYER MILLER Want to attend a fascinating concert on MLK weekend? Look no further! Two years ago I had lunch with a composer friend from Cincinnati who asked if I would be interested in commissioning a musical oratorio on the life of gay, African-American civil rights activist Bayard…

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BY JOHN KARRIGAN There was not much for me to write about for the December issue, or perhaps I was hiding again. Anyway I did not produce a column. Then I learned there were two deer seen near my corner of the park (15th Avenue and 35th Street). In the…

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BY ED FELIEN We won a tremendous victory at Standing Rock. Probably because of tremendous popular pressure, Obama ordered the Corps of Engineers not to approve the permit to allow the pipeline to cross the Missouri River at the location they intended. The pipeline company is confident that Trump will…

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