Old-school news, just in time
by Lauren Beavis South West News Service Emily Annakin has lost most of her sight through Stargardt disease – a form of juvenile macular degeneration which means she has no central vision. She is now a UWE Bristol Architecture and Planning student and as part of her final degree course redesigned part of …
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by Tracy Conly (Tracy Conly is a longtime friend from our days at the Ohio State School for the Blind, a great Braille reader and advocate for the blind. This is her reaction to our March 15 story “A New Tool In The Fight For Braille Literacy.”) “Braille changes lives. It gives thousands …
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by Kevin Burton Say to me LeBron James is the best basketball player ever. Wrong. Tell me mayonnaise in any form is anything other than an affront to the senses (all of them). Wrong. Tell me dogs are more loving than cats and I’ll tell you that you’re measuring love in terms of …
by Kevin Burton Wanted to give a shoutout to all the 2023 high school and college graduates, but without reflecting, depressingly, on how long it has been since I became a new grad myself. So I decided to talk tradition, rituals, why we do what we do at graduation ceremonies. A lot …
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by Kevin Burton Read into this what you will, but the American election day today, coincides with National Dunce Day. That’s from the mouth of the National Day Calendar to your ears, through me, a humble reporter. “National Dunce Day is celebrated on Nov. 8 each year. The day commemorates the death …
by Kevin Burton For me, it’s not that easy. Some of these heartless people at nationaldaycalendar.com were spot on in pointing out that May 9 was national Lost Sock Day. But then they went on to say it was a day to get rid of the unmatched socks. No, no, no, no, …
by Kevin Burton We talk Neil Diamond for the second time this week today, but first, a short digression back to my college days. My college friend Matt once commented that “the only things Kevin Burton and I agree on are Billy Joel and freedom of the press.” We favored both, for the …
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