Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tom Bihl: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

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“I would suggest you leave a lot of that stuff to the Auditor and his department.”        Soon-to-be-recalled Mayor Bauer's bad  advi...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Sewers of Portsmouth

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"You're a numb-skull, Norton!" I’m back. But I feel like Ed Norton of   The Honeymooners returning to work  after a six...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Sabbatical

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As announced in the previous posting, I am taking a sabbatical of about six months to devote more time to several other projects. I am ...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Resolutions

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New Year’s Resolutions We Wish Kalb had Made and Kept 1) I will not be lazy. 2) I will not be incompetent. 3) I will not be quarrelsome. 4) ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

PDT: Bankrupt!

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On December 21, 2009, Heartland Publications, the parent company of the Portsmouth Daily Times , filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. As of ...
Friday, December 18, 2009

The Swearing-in of Jane Murray

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Portsmouth Mayor-elect Jane Murray Thursday morning, December 17, at a historic ceremony in the rotunda of the County Courthouse, Jane Mu...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Trent Williams, CPFA

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Trent Williams, CPFA, who has a degree in music education, strums while city's finances go up in smoke What is the meaning of the acro...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Frances Trollope: American Dreams, American Nightmares

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Illustration of Frances Trollope from Domestic Manners of the Americans “On the 4th of November, 1827, I sailed from London, ac...