Daily Archives: April 8, 2007

The Mayor talks about the Center

Mayor White has an op-ed in the Chron about the current unpleasantness surrounding the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation. I haven’t done a word-for-word comparison, but I believe it’s the same as the memo he sent to City Council … Continue reading Continue reading

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“The Sopranos In Seven Minutes”

There are two awesome things about this story. One is that it exists at all: [W]here “The Sopranos” has so far taken around 77 hours to deliver the dark saga of family and crime in New Jersey, this other “Sopranos,” … Continue reading Continue reading

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Throws right and left

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a switch-throwing pitcher. The pitch was nothing remarkable: Pat Venditte, Creighton University’s temporarily right-handed pitcher, threw a fastball past a Northern Iowa batter for a called strike three. It was his next windup … Continue reading Continue reading

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