» Haisten Willis

We’ve all been there a thousand times, for better or for worse.

“I don’t know if there will ever be another one like him — certainly not in my lifetime.”

Did that headline get your attention? It sure got mine when I first read it on Tuesday in the Chronicle of Higher Education (which was brought to my attention by esteemed colleague Tony Petersen, making me a thief twice in the same column).

Yesterday, the president of California State University, Fresno took questions before a panel of students in the Peace Garden.

On Sunday, three local Presbyterian churches completed a split from the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination.

The pathetic cycle of national “news” last week centered on two subjects.

You should know about it by now, and if you don’t then they just might be talking about you.

If you aren’t aware that certain forms of traditional mass media are being threatened by the internet, then you must be one of the goons we in the field are worried will become oblivious to all local news at the expense of nationalized, marginalized, partisan sources.
“What?”
In other words, you aren’t paying attention. The fingers [...]

The oppressive summer heat broke mercifully last Tuesday, yielding to the cool fall air we’ve been waiting for since May.
Weather. Weather is one of the precious reminders that, despite talk of humans “saving the planet” and all the gawking over modern technology, we are still small on the earth. Humans are no more able to [...]