Street Talk: Stay at home too long and strange things begin to happen in the mind

The kitchen, the living room, the little room you use as an office, it all becomes too familiar and you begin to develop resentments for inanimate objects.

Street Talk: Trick or treat in the New Normal

On Halloween night, the rules are that there ain't no rules. Except, you know. This year. This year, there are nothing BUT rules

Mark LaFlamme: Tattered signs of things to come

Around here, people are ripping up campaign signs in the dark of night. In other parts of the country, they have advanced to burning down businesses, toppling statutes and shooting one another on the streets over differences of opinion.

Mark LaFlamme: Anything but politics

Just thinking about the act of writing about the politics of the day triggered a gag reflex so powerful, it nearly made me throw up on my cat again.

Mark LaFlamme: Missing kids and worst-case scenarios

These were the days before the internet and cellphones, but I tell you, rumors of a missing kid still had a way of spreading like wildfire. Word spread through corner stores, laundromats, lumber yards, hair salons . . . 

Mark LaFlamme: The truck makes the man

I'm pretty sure that simply by thinking real hard, I could grow a mustache on the spot.

Mark LaFlamme: Yes, professor, objectivity is still a thing

Objectivity, according to Professor Emeritus Ted Glasser of Stanford University, is just too cumbersome, and it gets in the way of what a journalist should consider his or her REAL job: activism

Mark LaFlamme: Kids these days have a way of making us feel inadequate

‘Hope’ and ‘Love:’ Art or blight?

Fray over spraypainted words on Cowan Mill an online gutter fight.

Mark LaFlamme: Cohorts, re-entry and hybrids, oh my!

This new emphasis on remote learning and online everything could forever change the laws of the social jungle that is the schoolyard.