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PublishedSeptember 28, 2021
Little Miss Ray runs away from home
Street Talk: When the exchange of words was no longer enough, a plan was hatched. She would sneak out of her family home, travel up to Lewiston and at last, they would be in each other's arms.
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PublishedAugust 9, 2021
Street Talk: Stop looking at my beard
The longer my beard grew, the more it seemed to antagonize people and I couldn't go anywhere without enduring one snide remark or another.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2021
Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There's a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
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PublishedJune 9, 2021
Street Talk: Signing bonuses and fancy titles. Get your dream job today!
We are living in the kind of economic state that could allow a person to take giant leaps in status by simply showing up. And they'll pay you just to be there!
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PublishedMay 4, 2021
Street Talk: Remembering Randy Whitehouse, a friend
Randy Whitehouse, my friend and confidant of a quarter-century, is gone.
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PublishedApril 27, 2021
Street Talk: News that punches you in the gut
Maybe the perfect reporter would be one who is never personally affected by anything that comes his way. Just writes up all the grim facts, collects his check and moves along in a cold and clinical way.
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PublishedApril 20, 2021
Street Talk: Hankering for a small-town gig
There's a certain kind of salt-of-the-earth charm about local scuttlebutt that is exclusive to the American small town. If that's where I ended up for my remaining reporter days, I'd have no complaints.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2021
A Street Talk confession: I haven’t learned about church since CCD
Before walking into a single church or making a simple phone call, I become filled with self-doubt, suddenly very vividly aware my own ignorance.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2021
Street Talk: Who needs a shovel when you’ve got pure rage?
What's worse is that now ordinary people like possibly you are talking about the coming storm, too, so I have to employ my black belt level talent for denial everywhere I go.
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2021
Street Talk: Weird scenes inside the new normal
You know you're in weird times when ... a dinner order is conducted like an arms deal.
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