John McIntyre, a veteran copy editor whose blog, You Don’t Say, became a vital grammar and usage forum for journalists and journalism teachers, was determined to be less than vital to the Baltimore Sun yesterday and laid off—reportedly with a dozen…
April 2009
After chewing on numbers from the Environmental Protection Agency for months, the American Lung Association released its 2009 report on local air pollution today, and I don’t know about your home town, but things are looking hazy in Chicago, the City…
The 100-days reviews have been pouring in since Day 95 or so, but as the partisans parse and the bloviators bellow, most have overlooked a startling development—Barack Obama has received unprecedented and nearly unqualified praise from…
