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Matter of Opinion archive for July 21, 2008

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008

Self-referential blog post

This is a blog post about blogging. I received a copy of a Time Magazine column by self-titled nerd Lev Grossman in my mailbox. Dunno who put it there (was it you, boss?) but I found it very interesting and pertinent to what we do…

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Letter: Blame conditions for fire

One of Sunday's letter-writers asked that large allowances be made for the mistake that likely caused the Valley View fires on July 10:I was reading somewhere that it was a teenager who started a campfire and didn't properly extinguish the fire. Even as adults we…

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