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Lenawee Smiles: Correct comma usage has become a lost cause
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFor some reason and for some people, the use of commas can bring those folks to their knees weeping....
Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Road,' dies at 89
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAuthor Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of 'The Road' on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 in New York. (AP...
As a lobbyist, he added flair to his envelopes. Now they’re his canvas.
Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAfton artist John Kaul remembers sending the first letters of his life to his paternal grandmother,...
South Bend featured prominently in Ellen Jovin's Grammar Table book 'Rebel with a Clause'
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBack on a hot day in the summer of 2019, author and communications teacher Ellen Jovin sat at a folding table she'd set up outside South Bend's Chocolate Café on South Michigan Street. As Jovin ...
Theme Park Rangers Radar: Moana’s comma at Epcot; science center’s eclipse plans
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 9 months agoTheme Park Rangers Radar looks up to the sky and down into its grammar handbook this week with an exploration of Walt Disney World attraction names thanks to Epcot’s Journey of Water, Inspired ...
Point/Counterpoint's Joe Altschule dies, he was 81
Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVeteran readers will remember that Tom Fife and Joe Altschule were the opposing voices in a biweekly feature on the Opinion Page, "Point/Counterpoint," in which the two of them would argue
Bill Ackman’s Plagiarism Hypocrisy Is Stratospheric
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who helped chase Claudine Gay out of Harvard’s presidency, learned last week from Business Insider that his wife,...
Bergen Evans: Meet the Warren County native behind The $64,000 Question game show
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 20—Bergen Evans loved words, both written and spoken, and spent his entire life teaching and sharing that love with others. He was an expert on the best uses, and abuses, of the English ...
Column: Some tips for those who write news releases
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 14—I've been a journalist for a very long time. I've read thousands of news releases. Maybe tens of thousands. and I shake my head at least once a day. Most people who write news releases ...
The epic family novel is alive and well in the masterful hands of Paul Murray
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPaul Murray is justly acclaimed for satirical novels including 'Skippy Dies.' In 'The Bee Sting,' he proves just as masterful at a realist family epic.
