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Aten Hut! A call to honor for three school districts of distinction.

NSBA has announced the 2008 Salute Districts: Avoca School District 37 in Ill., Genesee Intermediate School District in southeast Mich., and Minnetonka School District in Minn. These three school...

Don't You Dare Question Their Patriotism

The natural reaction to hearing the United States National Anthem? Why, hoot, howl, and give the Nazi salute, of course! For groups such as World Can't Wait and Code Pink, that is... I'll bet...

Predict The Day

Photo by Stephane GalloisI gave up on Ladytron a long time ago. Way back in 2000 I was coerced by a blend of UK hype and the promise of cute girls and picked up their Play Girl single, which...

Big Brown's Trainer Drugged Him For Race

Horse racing, which I grew up with and have enjoyed, should be banned. I simply cannot reconcile the sport of it for humans with the damage, pain and death suffered by the wonderful creatures. We...

Salute to Remy to be shown on MLB Extra Innings

Tonight, distributors are making NESN's Red Sox pregame show available to MLB Extra Innings subscribers beginning at 6 p.m. EST. This is a special event so that Red Sox fans may enjoy coverage of...

Sounds of summer

Conductor Cheryl Woldseth leads the Nevada County Band in an "American Salute" on Sunday evening at Pioneer Park in Nevada City. A nice-sized crowd turned out to watch the band's "What's in...

NxNE 2008 II

Photo by Frank YangYou know what they say about the best-laid plans. With the Killbeat/Kelp Records BBQ taking place at the Global Backpackers hostel just down the street from my office, I figured I...

Prince Harry Works and Plays

So what has Prince Harry been up to lately? We last saw him at City Salute with his brother Prince William, and of course, at the wedding of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly. We also heard about that...

Prince Harry Works and Plays

So what has Prince Harry been up to lately? We last saw him at City Salute with his brother Prince William, and of course, at the wedding of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly. We also heard about that...

Thoughts on the pending Iraqi SOFA agreement

SOFA stands for "Status of Forces Agreement" and we have 80 existing SOFA agreements currently with other nations where US troops are in residence.Iraq, of course, is under the microscope and...