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UK Elections 2019
The United Kingdom will hold a general election tomorrow, Thursday, December 12, 2019. All 650 seats in the House of Commons, the popularly-elected house of the national legislature, will be on the ballot. Voters cast a ballot only for their local Member of Parliament (MP), but the leader of the...
Cubs and WGN part company
This is sad news. It has been by far the longest TV partnership in baseball, but the number of Cubs games left to be broadcast on WGN TV is down to less than a half dozen. After 72 seasons, the last of them is almost over. WGN broadcast its first...
Bill Kerr, RIP
Bill Kerr, veteran of radio, stage, and screen in Britain and Australia, died on August 28, 2014, at his home in Perth, at the ripe old age of 92. His son Wilton Kerr told ABC (Australia) News: "He said he wasn't feeling too well quite recently and he was just...
Dewey Bartlett Jr: "As Mayor, I rely on The Weather Channel..."
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. was quoted in a web advertisement for The Weather Channel, part of the cable network's pushback in its battle against DirecTV's decision to replace the channel with WeatherNation on its satellite lineup. KJRH meteorologist George Flickinger posted a screenshot the ad on his Facebook page....
Putting blinders on TGOV: What's Bartlett Jr trying to hide?
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr is pushing for a policy change to Tulsa's local government cable channel that would hinder public transparency and accountability in city government. Today, Monday, January 23, 2012, at 2 p.m., in City Hall room 411, the TGOV Coordinating Committee will meet to discuss: Whether or...
Being the wave in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA
So the other two volunteers from the Tulsa area had to cancel. The expected number of local Muskogee volunteers didn't materialize. I think there were about 7 by the time all was said and done, including me and my 10-year-old daughter. Only three of us had any of the four...
Remembering Bob Novak
Robert Novak of the Evans and Novak Political Report, who spent over a half-century covering Washington politics and became a star of television debate shows like the McLaughlin Group, Crossfire, and Capitol Gang, died yesterday after a year-long battle with brain cancer. Novak was a fascinating character. He was not...
American Guide Series on Google Books
Yesterday, while catching up on yard work, I wished that I had had a chance to look through the appropriate Federal Writers' Project guidebook prior to a recent business trip. When I have free time during a trip I try to see the unique places around me, to get away...
P.O.V. on CPB
After reading in USA Today about the premiere tonight of the PBS documentary series P.O.V., I made a note to tune in: High-schooler Shelby Knox — who pledges celibacy until marriage — spearheads a campaign for comprehensive sex education. Unfortunately, the sound was out on the local PBS affiliate, and...
Joan Didion on the Schiavo case
In the June 9 issue of the New York Review of Books, Joan Didion has a wide-ranging 8000-word essay of the details of Terri Schiavo's life and death. As familiar as I am with the controversy, it was still eye-opening to see all the key issues, medical details, and turning...
"Television for Masochists"
I was getting a tire replaced today, and there was a Whirled from Friday in the waiting area, which was fine -- since I don't read the Whirled I hadn't seen it yet. At the bottom of the front page of the Satellite section is a sharply-written column protesting the...
More Anglican chant: BBC Frequency Change announcement
Back in December I posted an entry about the Master Singers' Anglican chant versions of "The Shipping Forecast," later enhanced with a link to their other big hit, "The Highway Code." This week, reader Anne Kroehle sends me a link to another interesting text set to Anglican chant: The King's...
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