In the early ’90s, you could always spot the Jefferson-Scranton kids within about 10 minutes of rolling into a city like Chicago or St. Louis on a band trip.
For as long as I can remember, music has been something that I automatically dissect, analyze and log into my memory bank, rather than something simply to enjoy.
Congress’ upcoming vote on a trillion-dollar, omnibus spending package marks the beginning of the final act for one of the two Iowa Republicans in the U.S. House.
What better place to start a book about parasites than a funeral.
After a while, I had to start assuming it was a false memory, even though the fuzzy mental image of Darth Vader and C-3PO hanging out on the Square in Jefferson has been with me for as long as I ca
Forty-five years of editing copy, which ended in October 2012, made me hypersensitive to common boo-boos in writing, in punctuation, grammar, syntax, capitalization, etc.
My wife didn’t understand. How could she?
We are gathered here today to pay our final respects to a word no longer relevant.
Nerd.
The Jefferson Herald had a dose of Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” a few decades ago, stemming from a presidential preference survey of Greene County political junkies.
Nostalgia is one of the hallmarks of the Christmas season.