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How cheap streetcar companies caused years of bloodshed on the streets.

April 25, 2024, Press Release from the USDA Rural Development: COLUMBUS, Ohio, Apr. 25, 2024 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development in Ohio State Director Jonathan McCracken announced

LCDR John Edward Schaefer, Jr. was born in Orlando, Oklahoma on December 13, 1924. He received his commission after graduating from Columbia University in 1945. As a Surface Warfare Officer,

Everyone reading these words has probably heard the following complaints a thousand times before. “Catholic colleges aren’t Catholic anymore”; “Colleg...

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Here’s what to know before Tuesday’s Election Day in Illinois, from key races to the amendment on the ballot to where to vote and much more.

In final days of the campaign, the real work comes down to getting candidate base voters to show up at the polls.

Election officials in Chicago said pre-Election Day turnout has increased in recent weeks after turnout about a month ago had seemed low.

Jean Langlais (1907–1991) composed his organ Mass Suite médiévale in 1947, drawing on a rich tradition of French organ suites composed for use during the “low” Mass. Changes to the liturgy after the Second Vatican Council (“Vatican II”) in 1962 drastically reduced the role of the organ during the Mass, thereby eliminating the need for the French organ Mass. Suite médiévale is one example of a body of small-scale liturgical organ compositions that no longer carry their intended rele...

Courtesy of Nancy Barnard How many music posters can fit in a forty-by-sixty-foot barn in Hill Country?  It’s a problem that Nancy Barnard, the former co-owner of San Marcos’s Sundance Records, is struggling to solve. “Fifteen hundred [posters]? Two thousand? We were reaching hoarder levels of stuff, if I’m being honest,” she says. And posters are just one part of her massive collection, which includes thousands of items of music memorabilia.  Barnard owned the beloved record store ...