Music always brings back memories for me. It was purely by accident I ran across a Web site that features those old fliers you used to pick up in stores beside the 45-rpm record racks listing the day’s Top 40 tunes.
So, for those of you who are fans of music from the late 60s, here’s a stroll [...]
After 3 1/2 weeks, my sump pump has finally stopped running. This is the first year in seven that it has run even once. I had to buy extended drainage tubing so it would drain in the street. I know it was a wet winter and it’s been a wet spring, so that doesn’t surprise [...]
Should the government help people who can’t afford to pay their mortgages keep their houses?
If it does, what’s it going to do for those of us who live within our means, studied the pros and cons of various mortgage options and took the most financially responsible route?
I’ll tell you what a bailout program would do [...]
This week’s raid on the Agriprocessors plant in Postville is a tragedy in more ways than one.
It illustrates the problem with government which looks the other way until — BAM — it’s convenient. Then it lowers the boom.
It illustrates the problem with American labor. Nobody wants to work on the line at a meat processing [...]
You can search the Internet for all kinds of cell phone tricks, which seems an appropriate topic today since my Ramblin’ column in The Gazette dispells the popular e-mail that proclaims “5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do” thanks to an article at Snopes.com
Fox News has a story about seven tricks you can [...]
I’m not sure when “No Problem” became a substitute for “You’re welcome,” but to me it has become a problem. It’s just one of many Pet Peeves you’ll find posted here from time to time.
“No problem” is so negative. “No” is negative. “Problem” is negative. I supposed that’s why it’s used. People thinking a double negative [...]
$65,170.
$71,398.
The first figure is the severance package received by Lori Barkema who recently resigned as director of the Cedar Rapids Public Library while the second is what Howard Collinson was awarded after he resigned as director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Sweet if you’re Barkema or Collinson. Sour if, as our country wallows [...]
While Todd Dorman makes valid points for local television stations keeping the public informed about impending and sometimes life-threatening storms in his Gazette column Tuesday (April 22), I must take issue with what often appears to be overkill.
“Blowhards who make angry complaint calls when TV stations break into programming for tornado warnings need to get [...]
Having visited the old Union Station railroad depots in Kansas City and St. Louis in the last few years, I think it’s a shame that forward thinkers in Cedar Rapids didn’t keep the old Union Station here. What got me thinking about that was today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette where we visited with Dick [...]
There’s no reality like your job, so with more than 30 years of experience in the newspaper business I couldn’t resist tuning into MTV (it used to stand for Music Television) last night to see its latest reality show - “The Paper.”
If newspapers of the future operate like “The Circuit” at Cypress Bay High School [...]
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