Asked if crime has been an issue at SugarHouse, Greenberger reported that police told him "there have been no serious issues at all [at] the SugarHouse Casino." And what about "a noted pistol-whipping incident in the parking lot?"

Marja loved these students best, the ones who were hardest to teach. They grappled with basic literacy like they were grabbing a bull by the horns.

Just weeks until primary petitions must be filed, Nutter faces just one challenger. Even his critics concede that the mayor is poised to cruise into re-election with that cool, Nutterly sangfroid that drives them so crazy. What's to explain this?

City Council will have a new president — and that, in turn, could mean a lot of things. Or, possibly, not much at all.

While DA Seth Williams' office has moved quickly on a small number of high-profile cases, it's not clear much has changed for the cases that don't get media attention.

It has come to the attention of Man Overboard! that a certain portion of the population is, to some degree, colorblind.

This case raise questions: about how the police handle the mentally ill; about how fatal shootings are and aren't investigated by the police, by the District Attorney and by the media, as well; and about how much faith, in the face of glaring contradictions, the public can put in any of them.

In response to the reader who wrote me that "guns are no more responsible for death and injury than a lead pencil is responsible for poor penmanship": I thank you for your letter, but disagree with every neuron in my collected synapses.

Cigarettes can't smoke themselves! Got diabetes? Don't blame sugar! Slot machines emptying out a few old ladies? Well shame on the old ladies for playing them!

If there's one thing the lull in between Christmas and New Year's is good for, it's hot toddies. If there's two, it's hot toddies and end-of-the-year lists