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Protest, proposals, delays and digs: The turbulent history of Hartlepool hospital - and its importance in the election The reduction in services at the site has been a key issue for candidates in the upcoming by-election Updated WITH VIDEO. March from Seaton Carew to Hartlepool hospital protesting about cuts to the hospital. Get the latest Hartlepool news direct to your inbox with our free email newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used i...

D Magazine By John Bloom Published in FrontBurner April 29, 2021 12:46 pm Editor’s note: Ole Anthony died April 16, at the age of 82. It has taken folks a few days to learn the news. The New York Times ran an obituary two days ago. John Bloom (aka Joe Bob Briggs) was a friend of Anthony’s and profiled him for D Magazine in a 1999 story titled “The God Thing.” Ole Anthony was a complicated man. Several journalists over the years tried to understand him, usually looking for the “gotcha” factoid that would reveal him to be a charlatan or a con man — and they usually found it! Ins...

Died: Ole Anthony, Terror to Televangelists He dug through prosperity preachers’ trash and pushed a radical Christian community to be more like the first-century church. Daniel Silliman| Image: Courtesy of the Trinity Foundation / edits by Rick Szuecs When it came down to it, Ole Anthony would admit to a lot of the bad things people said about him. “My own grandiose bull— can get in the way,” he told a reporter in 2004. “I was a schemer and a promoter. That’s just the way my mind works.” Anthony needed to believe he was special, and he convinced those around him...

This year, Mr. Romney was preemptively uninvited, and the mention of his name elicited howls from conservative activists who now want him formally expelled from the party after crossing the president on an impeachment vote. The about-face on Mr. Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, exemplifies the fickle taste of America’s conservatives. They flirted with libertarian-leaning Ron Paul and Rand Paul over the last decade, ended up in a shotgun marriage with Donald Trump in 2016, and ultimately elevated President Trump to an infallible godlike figure. Linda Memmesheimer of Naperville, Ill...

OH, where to begin? The avalanche? The orgy? Bowie? Dylan? Sean Connery?