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Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Stars At Night and the Move to See Them Better

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Seeing the Milky Way at Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah Since moving to the West, I've developed an interest in "d...

While News Stories Wail About a Few Burnt NJ Boardwalk Shops ...

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What's the story here? A suspicious fire on a Jersey Boardwalk that burned down some pizza joints and carny booths, a bar, an ice cream ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

A N.J. Boardwalk Fire After Labor Day? Stop the Presses!

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Crappy steel roller coaster falls into ocean, sleeps with the fishes, after Hurricane Sandy in Seaside Heights, NJ The media do love a n...
Saturday, September 07, 2013

Dark Skies

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Dark skies matter. They matter for aesthetics and culture and science and health. If you have ever seen the Milky Way, you know.... Mor...
Thursday, September 05, 2013

List of Airports Where TSA Is Expanding PreCheck

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The T.S.A. appears to be serious about this excellent plan to significantly expand access to the PreCheck trusted traveler program that redu...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Text of Justice Department Suit to Block Merger of American Airlines and US Airways

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Whoa, I did not see this one coming. The Justice Department, along with the attorneys general of six states and Washington D.C., sued to b...
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Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.
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