Mercy and Peace Don't Sell
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 5, 2007
It seems that there's little room in our culture for peacemaking and mercy. During a recent episode of the public radio show This American Life, Dal LaMagna, an entrepreneur who made his fortune sel
News: Fernald: Area's New Nature Preserve
Making a Superfund site a pastoral refuge
0 Comments · Saturday, August 25, 2007
It sounds like a joke: Fernald, formerly home to the Feed Materials Processing Center -- a uranium foundry for the manufacture of nuclear weapons until 1989, and then a federal Superfund site -- i
Bike Co-Op Thrives in Northside
Road to Wellness
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 6, 2007
At first glance, sticking a bicycle shop in the middle of a community garden seems a little misplaced. But as MoBo Bicycle Co-Op board member Gabriel Freeman says of the folks who operate the garden,
Cover Story: Hot Issue: High-Energy Sports
These summer adventures will knock your socks off
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 30, 2007
It was already a month into spring, and I was getting edgy. I guessed that I'd spent 60 hours on the bike, and it still didn't start. Fresh oil, new plugs, rebuilt carbs, a clean gas tank -- I
News: Hearing Each Other over the War
Panel discussion features international viewpoints
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Almost everyone in Iran has lost family to the Iran-Iraq War. It spanned all but the last two years of the 1980s, and its footprints weigh heavily on how Iranians view tensions with the West. Mah
Michel Onfray -- Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Firmly grounded in the post 9/11-era search for answers and in a certain degree of pomposity, Atheist Manifesto is as much an attempt to argue that religious extremism could be the death of us all
News: In Defense of Youth
New Teen Court focuses on personal change
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Daveyon Robinson, a freshman at Withrow High School, recently faced trial by a jury of his peers. The prosecutor, defense attorney and, in fact, almost everyone in the courtroom were also his peer
News: Backlash Against Big Media
FCC hears from public how media
consolidation imperils democracy
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Columbus -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Connie Schultz said what passes for journalism in Ohio breaks her heart. Schultz, a Cleveland Plain-Dealer columnist and wife of Sen. Sherrod Brown (
Music: Cult of Personality
y iHow Blue Oyster Cult fueled one man's journey into Hard Rock, geek fantasies and nudism
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 28, 2007
I've seen Blue Oyster Cult (BOC) seven times in concert, once naked -- me, not them. Keep that in your pocket for a moment and I'll explain it after some context. BOC is a band that's been out
News: War on News
Reform conference examines media's responsibility
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Memphis -- As the media reform movement, now about five years old, picks up speed, its scope is tightly focused on what the Rev. Martin Luther King called "the madness of militarism." At its co
