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The world's first newspaper was published in the first decade of the 17th century. Papers in France, Germany and Italy all have been cited as the first. Whichever it truly was, someone may well...

Boomtowns beget treachery, intrigue

It was the first day of December, 2019, and like Alice, I was down a rabbit hole.I was working on a short-story follow-up to my 2018 novel What Girls Are Good For, recounting the early career of Nellie Bly, the pioneering American journalist known for her fearless investigative reporting in the

There are Martini purists who abjure olives and insist that lemon peel is the only proper garnish for the greatest of all cocktails. They are the ones who can be heard, when presented with an olive in their drink, repeating the well-worn line, “If I had wanted a salad, I would have ordered one.” Let me suggest that they are wrong. Not only is an olive the best and most correct embellishment for gin-and-vermouth, without the cocktail olive, the Martini would never have come to be the essentia...

It was a birthday celebration fit for a pioneering journalist who shattered societal expectations for women and introduced investigative journalism as it is known today. After a two-year wait, a life-size figure of writer Nellie Bly took its planned place near George Washington and Franco Harris near the Airside Terminal