My latest B&C blog:
June news in review, starring Gregory Peck, Strom Thurmond, Sammy Sosa, Howell Raines, Katharine Hepburn, the Supreme Court, and more. Plus my June book review roundup:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/features/weblog/030630.html

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My latest Tribune stories:
(you can log in with name and password of "nbiermaread")
On the nursing shortage nationwide and in Oak Park:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/special6...
On a River Forest college's children's reading program:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/special6...
(see also the Wash.Post on the nationwide nursing shortage)

TIMELINE EXTRA:
Trimmed from my June news in review:
I should have included Larry Doby, the first African American to play in the American League, in my obituary roundup.

Also:
Nirvana's "Smells Like..." named the best song of the last 25 years

Wildfire spreads out West

NBC secures 2010 and 2012 Olympics rights

Chief Moose resigns over sniper book flap

Tulia 12 freed

First monkeypox in Western hemisphere

Poles approve EU membership

FCC votes to ease ownership rules

Finally, clipped from a Weird News site:
A 70-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman pleaded no contest to public indecency in New Philadelphia, Ohio, in June after their arrest for engaging in sex acts in a booth at a Hardee's restaurant. Though it was the couple's first lewdness charge, the prosecutor told the judge that it was not the first time they had done something like that. [The Times Reporter (Dover-New Philadelphia), 6-5-03]