It’s nearly Christmas and I know, from my own experience and from watching my children grow up, these are days when doubts about Santa Claus bubble up. It’s inevitable, kind of a right of passage, a ...

David Bowie’s “Changes” often plays in my noggin whenever things become different — when they evolve or devolve. It’s playing around the back of my skull at minimal volume as I approach Vinya: vino+ ...

The Beatles were the greatest thing in showbiz in 1965. The Beatles are still the greatest thing in showbiz in 2025. I don’t like being one of those “the Beatles are the best rock band ever” guys, ...

Warren Buffett has spent nearly 60 years at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway, shaping markets, moving capital, and delivering the kind of steady, deadpan commentary investors treat as its own economic ...

The U.S. housing market is going to face a price correction “worse than 2008,” according to housing analyst Melody Wright, who expects home prices to drop in half starting as soon as next year. “I see ...

NBA player Rob Dillingham seems to be helping the financial crisis of 2008 have a moment 17 years after the fact. "2008 Global Financial Crisis" reads the text spread across the zip-hoodie’s chest, a ...

On hearing of Todd Snider's passing, I archive-dived for an interview story, for which I had naught to do with the headline, which includes "Nashville crooner." Though he had a warm, likeable voice, I ...

There was a time, in the early 2000s, when I loved football with such naive intensity that I wore a different NFL jersey to middle school for an entire week. This made me, undeniably, the coolest kid ...

There’s a confusing twist in a race for a West Plains fire commissioner. One of the candidates for a Spokane County Fire District 3 fire commissioner seat has since been appointed to fill a different ...

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