To Iraq, with laughsThird-graders share jokes, inventions with their teacher's former student, now running convoys in Iraq:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/29/news/01letters.txt
Calls to soldiers, Hurricane bluesMonday night, all local military families got a scripted call: two soldiers died, two were wounded, it wasn't your soldier. A harrowing night in their life:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/28/news/01troops.txtWomen stalking Louisiana family: first Katrina, then Rita. And they can't get a restraining order:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/28/news/z06family.txt
War comes homeTwo dead, two wounded. Roadside bomb. West Baghdad. We don't yet know their names. Details fuzzy. Families waiting.
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/02soldier.txt
Jail fees (round two), Homeland Security grantCounty, municipalities agree to discuss jail fees, provide reporter saucy quotes:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/23/news/z06jail.txtHolmen gets its fourth Homeland Security grant, in four tries:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/24/news/holmen_24.txt
Dangerous book, Digital TVDo cartoon images of men/women impersonating birds/bees deserve to be viewed/hidden from elementary school students? It's so amazing:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/z1news22.txtDigital TV, just in time for the Christmas season:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/22/news/z2news22.txt
Tit, tatCounty to cities: no-more-get-into-jail-cheap cards; Cities to county: no-more-snowplowing-your-library-for-free. We've got a little battle brewing, Old Testament style:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/21/news/01jails.txt
The Woodsman
Rick Sevenants, 53, spends nine hours a day, seven days a week chopping down trees and splitting firewood. I want his job:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/19/news/00lead.txt
GreyhoundsHere begins a new venture in the Dan-not-in-China blog. I hope to post links to stories I write for the La Crosse Tribune. Posting it here may save you some navigating around the site, I hope.
So, on to today's article, about greyhounds, retired from racing, seeking homes:
http://lacrossetribune.com/articles/2005/09/16/news/00lead.txtPostscriptAn excerpt of an email I just received (Friday night) from a representative with the greyhound adoption agency. It makes my month:
"The response to the article was overwhelming! In evenings past we saw maybe 10people. This evening when we arrived at 4:30 there was a crowd waiting (maybe 15-20 people). We figure we saw anywhere from 100-225 people this evening, and well over 50 of them took applications home. It's amazing how much of a difference one person can make when he wields his pen-or keyboard."
