HC sports take ride down `The Pike' to FM dial.
Byline: Bill Doyle COLUMN: Tuning In Fed up with getting bumped off WTAG-AM (580) too often by the Worcester Sharks, Holy Cross has taken a hike down the pike to WWFX-FM (100.1). At least 60 HC games - football, men's basketball and women's...

Kingmaker.
I HAD the privilege of knowing Bill Buckley for some 40 years. One might even argue that I would not be a U.S. senator without him. I ran for the Senate in 1988, and Bill was not an admirer of the Republican incumbent. He called me up and said,...

The truth about spanking: promoting a ban is counterproductive.
'PROGRESS" in human civilization has been marked by prohibitions against certain instinctual, innate practices, many now considered primitive. These achievements include ending human sacrifice, cannibalism, incest, slavery, and wife-beating. Virtually every society now deems these practices immoral. Abortion is at the forefront of ethical controversy in the United States...

Martha Stewart Living to Buy Emeril Franchise.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-19 February 2008-Martha Stewart Living to Buy Emeril Franchise(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia announced that it has reached an agreement with Chef Emeril Lagasse to acquire the assets related to the business of Emeril Lagasse, other than the restaurant and...

RSS for educators; blogs, newsfeeds, podcasts, and wikis in the classroom.
9781564842398 RSS for educators; blogs, newsfeeds, podcasts, and wikis in the classroom. Hendron, John G. ISTE 2008 308 pages $29.95 Paperback LB1028 Hendron, who serves as a instructional technologist and teacher...

The voice of small-town America; the selected writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948.
9781570037108 The voice of small-town America; the selected writings of Robert Quillen, 1920-1948. Quillen, Robert. Ed. by John Hammond Moore. U. of South Carolina Press 2008 321 pages $29.95 Hardcover F274 ...

Library talk makes cents; Parents can get fiscal tips while kids race pennies.
Byline: Betty Lilyestrom COLUMN: LEICESTER NOTEBOOK The Leicester Public Library will be presenting a pair of programs for children Tuesday, but the children will only get to attend one of them. The other one will be for their parents. But both programs will have to...

Breakdown.
WHEN the host of a comedy show has a crying jag on camera and then cancels her next two shows because her disconsolate woe just keeps getting worse, we can't help wondering, Where can a funny lady go from here? The answer is: She can't. It's checkmate time for...

Cartoonist Pol Galvez to hold exhibit of his work in Angeles City.
Filipino cartoonist Pol Galvez, formerly of the Manila Bulletin now based in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, will have a homecoming cartoon exhibit of his work at Museo Ning Angeles City in Pampanga on Sept. 10-Oct. 10. A recipient of several art awards in cartoon journalism here and...

Brave, but mostly wrong: six years of columns in one provocative book.
Reflections on Islam: Ideas, opinions, Arguments George Jonas Key Porter Books 251 pages, softcover ISBN 9781552638866 This book is a collection of several years' worth of George Jonas's columns on the theme of Islam that appeared in the National Post and in syndication across the CanWest News...