Little Mountain Lass

Learning the rules the hard way, looking in the wrong places, and trying to tell the stories we need to hear.

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Perspective | Baseball’s lockout reflects renewed labor might in the United States

The sport's contentious labor relations have long tracked the ebbs and flows of the union movement.

My take on the MLB lockout from December 2021.

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Follow up interview with POLITICO: 

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-shift/2022/02/14/walsh-wants-his-turn-at-bat-00008514

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Private James Hendrix of the 101st Airborne, playing guitar at Fort Campbell Kentucky in 1962

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Althea Gibson, U.S. and Wimbledon tennis champion, gives some pointers on the game which has brought her international fame. Some 500 students attended the tennis clinic yesterday at Midwood HS, directed by Murray Eisenstadt, varsity coach / / World Telegram & Sun photo by Ed. Ford. 

December 1957

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Unidentified Scottish curling team (1903)

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Compton High School baseball team (1970)

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Canadian First Nation Declares State Of Emergency Over Suicide Attempts

The isolated Attawapiskat community is home to about 2,000 people. In March, there were 28 suicide attempts — and on Saturday night alone, 11 people tried to kill themselves, the CBC reports.

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Happy National Pet Day!

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Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty

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This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see.

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Photo of a M-1 being tested in a Langley Research Center’s wind tunnel in mid-1927.

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Superheater Tubes and Boiler Flues, C&O T-1 #3020 Boiler Explosion, 1948

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Ebbets Field, Brooklyn N.Y., a view from upon high. - 1955 - 1960.

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Brigitte Bardot on set of the Louis Malle film Vie Privee in 1961. (Loomis Dean—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends

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Wyoming is sometimes called the Equality State — it had the nation’s first female governor and was the first territory to give women the right to vote. But that legacy isn’t visible on the floor of the state Senate. Just one of the 30 state senators is a woman.

“I am the queen of the Senate. I have my own little tiara,” jokes Bernadine Craft, a Democrat who represents the mining town of Rock Springs.

Overall, just 13 percent of state lawmakers in Wyoming are women, the lowest rate of representation in the country according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

Meanwhile, just 100 miles away, 42 percent of Colorado state lawmakers are women, the highest in the country. Having so many women in office has changed the overall tone at the state Capitol, said Colorado’s House speaker, Dickie Lee Hullinghorst.

“This is no longer a good old boys club and I think any time you mix it up and represent a lot of diversity, I think it makes the tenor better,” said Hullinghorst, who was the first Democratic woman to lead the chamber, although Republicans captured that honor more than a decade ago.

Women may make up half the population, but in the U.S. they rarely have anything close to proportional political representation. At the state level, where many aspiring politicians get their start, just 24.5 percent of lawmakers are women, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

See Where Women Have The Most And Least Political Representation In The U.S.

Graphic: Katie Park/NPR

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David Bowie photographed by Steve Schapiro, Los Angeles, 1974.

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No stretch of England is more romanticized than the Cotswolds. 

Find your essential guide to the region: here.