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01/03/2019

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12/16/2017

Bill Moyer unsure our democracy will survive.

When I turned 80 three years ago, I retired my weekly PBS series and have since focused on the web with a small, dedicated team as the avenue for our journalism. Now it’s time for another farewell. Continue reading

11/20/2017

Thank you, Larry Meath, for the welcome news that Alan Furst, the outstanding author of deeply researched historical fiction (and a former editor at the old Seattle Post Intelligencer) has a new spy novel--"A Hero of France."

I appreciate a book that grabs you at the get-go, as Furst's books usually do. Consider this atmospheric opener from Furst's new work:

"Occupied Paris, the tenth of March, 1941

"At eight-twenty in the evening, the man known to his Resistence cell as Mathieu waited in a doorway where he could watch the entry of the Metro station on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. He tried to look beyond the entry, but there wasn't much to be seen, only shapes in the night -- the street lamps had been painted blue and the widows of the apartment buildings draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the German Occupation Authority. A sad thing, he thought, a dark and silent city because the Germans had forbidden the use of cars, buses, and taxis. But in that silence, nightingales could be heard singing in the parks, and in that darkness the streets were lit by a silvery moonlight when the clouds parted."