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An Arresting Tale: From Podium to Pokey in 10 Days

October 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments

On Oct. 2, Catherine Bleish was one of a handful of speakers who revved up a crowd of 2,000 at the St. Charles (Mo.) Tea Party.  Ten days later, she found herself in jail in the South St. Louis city of Maplewood.
“I was standing in line outside,” the 25-year-old told me Monday afternoon during an [...]

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Letter Reveals Much About 1918 Flu Pandemic

May 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments

Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around the world died.  Toward that end, a visit to the National Archives produced a letter written [...]

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Cyclists’ Battle with NYPD Reaches ‘Critical Mass’

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

At issue in a video (above) making the news today is an ice hockey-style body check that a New York City police officer delivered to a biker participating in a Critical Mass bike ride Friday night in Times Square.
While, on the surface, the video appears to show a cop acting recklessly and endangering the [...]

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