It seems like “missing women” and “gas station” stories almost never end well. Jessica Heeringa is one example; that case is unsolved currently and now, even an act named for what happened around her is on life support. Jennifer Huston was last seen… Continue Reading
Last weekend, College Gameday had to go to an unranked vs. ranked game, where the unranked team was coming off a loss to Indiana (last Rose Bowl in the 1960s) and the ranked team had opened the season by giving up about… Continue Reading
You may have heard about the Kemper County (MS) power plant — here’s the Wiki for it, for good measure — as it could be a major step forward in the climate change battle. Here’s the basic situation: the plant converts coal into… Continue Reading
When you get older and your friends start living in different parts of the country relative to work/family/etc., you sometimes hop on GeoMidpoint to figure out the best place for a group to meet up (news flash: if you put six… Continue Reading
However you choose to slice it, the health care situation in the United States is a bit of a wreck, to be sure. The Commonwealth Fund just released some detailed rankings of health care performance state-by-state, and then the main… Continue Reading
There may be a gender bias in who we execute in the United States, and this story out of Mississippi may well underscore that as well. Here are the basics of her case: her husband, who had been abusive, was murdered… Continue Reading
Couple of major incidents have transpired at Ole Miss in the semi-recent past: a noose appeared around a statute of James Meredith, the university’s first black student (a fraternity was basically expelled as a result of that), and there was… Continue Reading