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12/11/2025

04/24/2024

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Tennessee’s hike in rates for attorneys representing indigent defendants or families is “a good start,” but unlikely to draw new people into an inadeq…

10/31/2023

10/02/2023

Today’s PSA: if you find yourself in custody and you want to make a phone call, take it serious when the lady says your call may be monitored. Can’t tell you how many cases I’ve seen people sink themselves on being a Chatty Kathy.

06/02/2023

04/23/2023

“Young parents, listen to me,” Mary Louise Kelly writes. “It. Goes. So. Fast.”⁠ http://on.theatln.tc/E8KTyop
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For years, Kelly missed her eldest son’s high-school soccer games. “Varsity games tend to happen on weekdays, around 4 p.m. Want to know what else happens on weekdays at 4 p.m.? NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ goes on air. Technology makes possible many once-impossible things, but our broadcast engineers have yet to figure out how I might anchor a daily national news program from the bleachers …” Kelly writes. She consoled herself with the knowledge that there would always be another game—that “next time, I’d figure out a way to be there, deadlines be damned, screaming myself hoarse on the sidelines.” But the years slipped by, and suddenly, her son was a senior. “I was out of next times,” she writes. “There were no more do-overs.”⁠
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“I swear there are a million well-meaning books about the juggle, and work-life balance, and leaning in and leaning out, and how you can have it all just maybe not all at once,” Kelly continues at the link in our bio. “Start reading, though, and you’ll find they’re nearly all aimed at young parents at the beginning of the whole enterprise. But here is the thing I did not know: The tug is just as strong when your baby is 17 as when he is seven weeks or seven months. For me, it is in fact stronger.” And so, Kelly writes, she made a difficult decision: http://on.theatln.tc/E8KTyop
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📷️: Carlos Barria / Reuters / Redux ⁠

04/11/2023

For 55 years, he encouraged fans of the satiric magazine to mutilate it.

12/04/2022

The new research, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examines the practice of plea negotiations in St. Louis County, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

11/26/2022

Microbial interlopers may set off chain reaction that can suppress immune system and lead to metastasis

11/26/2022

The home is made entirely from a wood-based material, which University of Maine researchers say is an inexpensive, renewable and recyclable building option.

11/26/2022

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

11/08/2022

A history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in America.