Mayor Ryan: health is good

by | Jan 18, 2007 | Urban Compass

Springfield Mayor Charles Ryan welcomed the press at his home in Forest Park early this afternoon. He looked well and was in good spirits, first sharing the story of what happened on Friday that brought him into a long weekend of hospital overnight stays, including a...

Crossing guards are the new police

by | Jan 18, 2007 | Urban Compass

After another typical berating from our corner crossing guard for walking my kids to school on such a cold day, she and I launched into a relatively long discussion about what problems she is seeing from her twice-daily post at Oakland and Dickinson Streets. Today she...

A proposal: the troop Serge

by | Jan 18, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal

A brilliant idea, prompted by the musings of one Tom Sturm. The Rebubblicans keep sayings the Democrats don’t have any ideas, but this’ll stop ’em dead in their tracks. You can have the troop surge. We want a troop Serge, as in French pop star Serge...

Noah Emmerich, Inaugural Movie Mook

by | Jan 18, 2007 | Dear Dexter

One of my favorite moments in The Truman Show, which is one of my fav-o-rit-est movies of all the time, is toward the end, after Ed Harris’s megalomaniacal producer-father-God character realizes that his creation, Truman, can’t be found. Marlon, the best...