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On "Outdated Emotion," the 81-year-old blues icon covers songs — by Hank Williams and Jimmy Reed, among others — that moved him growing up.

On 1 April 1970 the Ulster Defence Regiment formally took its place in the ranks of the British Army. The UDR was a locally recruited militia estab...

Forum, June 1: Those ‘largely peaceful protests’ were deadly Published: 5/31/2021 10:00:15 PM Modified: 5/31/2021 10:00:13 PM Those ‘largely peaceful protests’ were deadly The Los Angeles Times story about reforms after the George Floyd killing tries to soft-pedal the violence and lawlessness of the Minneapolis rioters (“Police reform goals remain unfulfilled,” May 25). The story blandly refers to “largely peaceful protests” in one single line. Largely peaceful? Those so-called “protests” killed two, cost some $500 million in property damage and burned out an entire polic...

Column: A well-founded pessimism about our future Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 5/19/2021 9:35:47 AM Years ago I had a fishing buddy who was also a history professor. We usually cast our flies from opposite ends of a large aluminum scow; and when fishing was slow, we just trolled around the pond and talked. I learned more during those sessions about the details of building the Panama Canal than I ever gleaned from David McCullough’s excellent book The Path Between the Seas, and...

Elo/Veritas – Finnish pension insurance company Elo has chosen Carl Pettersson as its permanent replacement for former chief executive officer Satu Huber, who quit suddenly last month. Pettersson is the current CEO of Veritas, the smallest of the four mutual pension insurance firms operating in Finland’s earnings-related pension system. Elo is the third largest. Antti Aho, chairman of the board of Elo, said: “Carl Pettersson has strong expertise in the financial services, investment and pension insurance sectors, as well as a solid track record of successful leadership in a regulated...