In this modern world of marketing & audience research, one wonders HOW PepsiCo could have unleashed such a repugnant advert for Mountain Dew (created by the founder of a hiphop group)...
We've covered on this blog before how the current establishment Republican push for some type of immigration reform might never deliver the G.O.P. the ultimate goal - Hispanics giving the Republicans a second look - because the Democrats almost inevitably would be perceived as the more immigrant-friendly political party...
Until now, only Russia had warned the United States about accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Still unclear: How seriously U.S. officials treated the Russian warning, particularly if they assumed the Russians were driving their own agenda in Chechnya and Dagestan quite apart from international terrorism...
A judge sentenced a former Essex County (New Jersey) "Teacher of the Year", Erica DePalo, to life on probation for having sex with a 15-year-old student...
In a televised interview on "Morning Joe", New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared President Obama followed through on promises to New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy delivered widespread devastation along the coast...
For those folks who believe America is too litigious a society - that we have too many lawyers - delicious irony abounds: Eight alumni of Widener University's School of Law recently slapped a lawsuit against their alma mater, and their suit has so far overcome the university's attempts to get it thrown out...
So which stories / topics / issues have captured your attention as we reflect on the week?
Efforts to abolish capital punishment in Delaware stalled in a House Committee...
The story of insulting internet postings about customers' behavior and tipping at Hockessin's Padi restaurant now appears in London's DAILY MAIL, with many more photos than in the NEWS JOURNAL's original story...
On the "Rick Jensen Show" here on WDEL - and in a NEWS JOURNAL Page One story - we get more about the April 13th fight at Pastabilities restaurant in Wilmington's "Little Italy" section...
To many Americans, it may be a moot or irrelevant point, but the Federal criminal complaint against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev accuses him of "unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction...
So many questions remain about the Boston Bombing brother suspects:
Did they hatch their plot alone, albeit, with ideological encouragement from Islamist sites?
Did something happen during their lives in the U...
Let's leave this column for comments on stories OTHER than the Boston story.
Haven't had the time to do my normal compilation but I know regular commenters have no shortage of stories and topics provoking interest and debate...
Finally, the Boston area's long ordeal APPEARS to be over.
Check out the latest from The BOSTON GLOBE & WBZ/CBS News.
The BOSTON GLOBE's website:
http://www...
Even a diluted, compromise expanded background check measure could not clear the United States Senate, albeit, with the 60-vote threshold.
In contrast, the Delaware State Senate has passed expanded background-check legislation by a 13--8 vote...
Media reports Wednesday afternoon indicated an arrest was imminent in the Boston Marathon bombings, or that a bombing suspect was already in custody. Then came a lot of backpedaling...
After an agonizing period of uncertainty about a possible perpetrator, no arrests, but authorities late Wednesday reported making progress in their investigation, isolating an image of the bombing suspect...
Alec MacGillis at The NEW REPUBLIC notes Boston has been a hub for research into explosives detection, and one of the main research centers in Boston was closed Monday for Patriot Day, like many other institutions...
The Boston Marathon will never be the same. It will now be forever associated with yesterday's twin bombings.
That we know.
But, at the time of posting this blog (just after 8 a...
Explosions have killed at least three people and injured more than one hundred people at or near the finish-line of today's Boston Marathon.
Going into the 4 p...
If you care about improving people's health care choices AND reducing the upward spiral of health care costs, YET fear government and/or your employer infringing on your personal freedom AND the burden of wellness programs particularly on poor people...
