Going to extremes

Barbara Gittings, 75, one of the earliest activists to push the U.S. government to provide gay men and lesbians with equal rights, died Feb. 18 at an assisted living center in Kennett Square, Pa. She had breast cancer  [more...]

Holy cow, it’s LOUD here in my Chicago hotel room. Even though I’m 12 stories up, I can hear every car on the street, the deep rumbling of the trains, and the sirens of the fire station on the next block. In  [more...]

San Jose is yellow right now — not from the weird yellow streetlights we have, but from smoke. Yet another wildfire, this time in Monterey county, is putting out plumes of smoke that are covering our skies. I went  [more...]