Matt Wood Staff Writer Harper Lee’s long unreleased novel “Go Set a Watchman” is loaded with baggage. Written before her 1960 classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” but set in the 1950’s rather than the 1930’s, “Go Set a Watchman” is more prototype than prequel or sequel. It is not a continuation of the lives of the Atticus and Scout readers are familiar with. This is … Continue reading “Go set a watchmen”
Matt Wood Staff Writter Few crimes can match the spectacle and horror than that which Aurora, Colorado theatergoers would suffer on the night of July 20, 2012. 20 minutes into a midnight premiere screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” a man, clad head-to-toe in ballistics gear, walked through the emergency exit door of the packed theater, lobbed two teargas canisters into the darkened room, and … Continue reading It’s time to axe the death penalty
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