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I wonder about the timing of this article, two days after the last printed P-I rolls out the door. It’s the kind of shoe-leather story the Times is reputed to not be that good at. Absent our alleged best means of ferreting out corruption, and until something better comes along, I have no choice but [...]

Everything was shipshape at the Comcast Arena in Everett on Sunday night. Barry wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. But rather than taking the hipster’s (or newspaper writer’s) aery high road, I will instead work with a few popular conceptions about the songwriting institution of Manilow, Inc. To wit: he writes the songs. Karyn [...]

In times like these, it takes some serious gymnastics to justify profligate spending. Here’s my attempt: Karyn and I are going to, let’s see, stimulate the economy of the city of Everett, a company town with an unemployment rate currently north of 7%. In a gesture of cultural and commercial participation at its most direct, [...]

A number of years ago, one of my favorite musicians, country outsider Robbie Fulks, made an offhand comment that has really stuck with me. It was one of those lulls where the band is retuning and the requests are flying. Inevitably, someone shouted for “Fuck This Town,” Fulks’ biting, wounded response to Nashville’s indifference to [...]

Monsanto has inflicted more environmental and health damage than any company on the planet. They are the folks that brought you DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, rBGH, and GMOs. And now they’re trying to make GMOs the law of the land. They’re doing this by buying up seed companies across the Midwest, getting legislation passed that punishes small [...]