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WNBA Rumors: Dream Stunned By Coachs Exit Before 2021 Opener; Rebuilding Seen As Reason KEY POINTS Collen was the 2018 WNBA Coach of the Year The development comes months after the Dreams new ownership took charge With 10 days left before the start of the 2021 WNBA regular season, the Atlanta Dream were shocked by the news that head coach Nicki Collen is leaving for womens college basketball team Baylor. Baylor had already announced the signing officially on Monday. Collen will replace 21-year ...

by Eric Jackson It’s Cinco de Mayo. Not the same thing here as it is to Mexicans – and for some reason even more so to Mexican-Americans. It’s not the celebration of a battle where foreign interlopers were routed. Here in Panama it’s the solemn commemoration of the sacrifices that the volunteers and professionals of the oldest part of the Panamanian government, the Cuerpo de Bomberos — the firefighters — have made and make. In the wee hours of May 5, 1914, the bomberos were called i...

Marcos Castillero chairs the last session of his two-term National Assembly presidency, closing shop early on April 29 at a reasonable hour. No mad rush to debate pressing business or controversial measures this time, and with that lost opportunities to slip outrageous amendments into the law without anybody looking. Asamblea Nacional photo by Erick Santos. Little drama allowed at the end of the Pandemic Days legislative year by Eric Jackson Some legislative years go right up to the midnight on...

Pat Donaher’s path to becoming a jazz saxophonist didn’t begin with that goal in mind. Growing up in Quincy, he was playing piano by 6 – his parents’ idea – and took to it. But like so many other kids before him, it wasn’t long before he started thinking about other instruments too. “It’s typical of parents saying if you stick with piano for ‘X’ number of years, you can take another instrument,” said Donaher, 46, from his home in Watertown. “That was in the mid-’80s, ...

Dallas Jan 25, 2019 The holiday season was a brutal one for U.S. retailers, especially department stores and companies that sell luxury products, and companies and investors alike didn’t see it coming.The U.S. economy has been growing at a steady pace, and unemployment is low and consumer confidence is high. That seemed to set the stage for strong sales over the holidays, but... Dallas Nov 29, 2018 We first told you a few weeks ago about a rare opportunity fo...

by Eric Jackson vice chair, past chair and candidate for chair, Democrats Abroad Panama These elections are delayed. It is so because there was an attempt to ditch Democrats Abroad Panama by-laws and most semblances of transparency and democracy and present the organization with a slate of candidates with a single person for each position, and no more nominations once the slate is presented process. This, not based on any decision of the board (intentionally kept short-handed) but “because th...

Various are the survival strategies — for when you go months without the local aqueduct bringing you water, AND for a medium that’s squeezed by tech monopolies. It helps when you see your little publication as a cause rather than a cash cow. Archive photo by Eric Jackson, from the time when his house and his neighbors’ houses went eight months without water. Google and Facebook, attacked from several directions, move to silence their critics by Eric Jackson Want to be NOT listed by Google...

WBCN Documentary Broadcast Premiere on May 6 – Special Online Panel April 26 April 23, 2021 in Film, History The documentary “WBCN and the American Revolution” chronicles the founding of Boston’s groundbreaking rock station that combined late-1960s countercultural politics and music in way that influenced freeform radio to come. Directed by journalist and former WBCN employee Bill Lichtenstein, the film will premiere on GBH 2 in the Boston area. It will air nationally on PBS stations t...

Rich Barton The lights were dimmed. Soft music played in the background as Dan Levy, clad in paisley pajamas, parted his lips and tossed his head. “I need a new fantasy,” he moaned. “Are you in your 30s? You need something new,” a satin-clad woman purred in reply. “The pleasure you once got from sex now comes from looking at other people’s houses. You need Zillow.” Rich Barton’s company had made it to “Saturday Night Live,” in a skit that went viral. Acknowledging the pop cu...

of several hundred people be run? by Eric Jackson A political party in a democracy is different from other sorts of organizations. It’s not a for-profit business, nor is it a charitable organization. It’s neither a religious congregation nor a military unit. It’s not the mafia. It’s not a media business. Skills learned from all such pursuits have been useful for – and the bane of – all sorts of political parties in all sorts of paradigms. (If General Omar Torrijos famously referred ...