By Calvin Palmer
The warning from the Mayor of Galveston’s office was stark. “Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single family, one- or two-story homes will face certain death,” said official Mary Jo Naschke.
Her words were backed up by the first effects of Hurricane Ike. Sea water had already started to flood the low-lying city on [...]
September 12, 2008
Ike poses threat of “certain death”
September 12, 2008
School bus plan on road to nowhere
By Calvin Palmer
Once again Britain seems to be following America’s example, with the announcement of a plan to ferry schoolchildren to and from school in yellow buses.
But wait a minute. There is nothing American about this idea. I can remember in the 1960s a bus being laid on to take me to school, not just [...]
September 12, 2008
England sox it to the Yankees
By Calvin Palmer
Baseball is as American as American can be. Teams such as the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox instantly evoke the great cities of New York, Los Angeles and Boston.
The American poet Walt Whitman once said: “It’s our game; that’s the chief fact in connection with it; America’s game; it has the snap, go, [...]
