Column

I don’t know how to write about the homeless without coming across as someone at one end or other of the spectrum – critical that society would allow homelessness to exist or unkind and uncaring about it all. It’s kind of a land mine.

With the Democratic National Convention occupying much of the available news space for the next four days, anyone paying attention is bound to hear a proclamation that this November’s election is the most important in history.

Their whoops of exuberant joy as they ran to the car to greet us more than made up for the 2 a.m. wake-up call and the grueling hours aboard a plane.

I’ve been watching the Summer Olympics lately. A lot.

Expo ’74 welcomed its 3 millionth visitor, just a few days after the fair’s midpoint. The fair was already approaching two-thirds of its projected attendance.

Proponents of nuclear power, who have been wandering for decades like latter-day Israelites in a desert of public skepticism, might be feeling hopeful about a revival of their prospects.

90 teams showed up for the second annual Courtzite on Saturday, July 27 in Chewelah, Wash. 

PARIS — The night before Angela Carini’s opening bout in the women’s boxing competition at the Tokyo Olympics, her father died. The Italian from Naples lost the next day and soon quit the sport. Last fall, she had a change of heart and returned to the ring, qualifying for the Olympics and climbing through the ropes Thursday at Paris North Arena for her opening bout in the 145-pound division. ...