Day November 29, 2005

Why shortsighted greed is dumb

Arctic booms as climate change melts polar ice cap The global hunger for oil is fuelling a new gold rush. Wa-hoo! Let’s go make big bucks drilling in the Arctic – for a few years at least – until everything…

Tookie Williams interview

Q. The media has made much of the fact that you have never apologized to the murder victims’ families in your case. If I had the opportunity to talk to any victims’ family members, I would say that I can…

Jug band legend passes

Fritz Richmond, a folk musician considered one of the world’s finest players of the jug and washtub bass, died of lung cancer Sunday. He was 66. He won national attention in 1963 with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. Bandmate Geoff…