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Strange Tales From the North Country: A Profitable (Print) Newspaper
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen...
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If You Thought a Profitable Newspaper Was Surprising, How About This: A...
Recently I mentioned one of the business surprises of the greater Burlington, Vermont area: a newspaper, called Seven Days, that has larger in-print circulation, a bigger staff, and higher revenues...
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From Burma to Burlington: The Story of 'Brings Luck'
Hai Blu and his wife, True Tender By Deborah Fallows This is the story of Hai Blu, whose life story began with unimaginable bad fortune, then turned toward fortune so good that it met the destiny of...
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For Your Weekend Reading Guidance
1) Pacific Standard magazine, based in Santa Barbara, has an excellent new issue out. You can read it in print if you subscribe, at the link above -- or you can wait as the articles come from behind...
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Eastport on Marketplace
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, my wife and I were meeting people and asking questions in Eastport, Maine, along with Kai Ryssdal and his colleagues from Marketplace, Bridget Bodnar and Brendan...
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Eastport Road Map: Global Meets Local in a Very Small Town
My wife and I have exactly one frustration about the series of cities we've been visiting over the past two months. It is that we have been seeing things, meeting people, asking questions, getting...
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Time to End the 'War on Terror' (for Real)
Seven-plus years ago, I argued in a cover story that the open-ended "war on terror" was damaging American interests and American values more than the (still-real) threat of terrorist attack had or ever...
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Flying Up Down East
By Deborah Fallows We took off from KGAI -- the Montgomery County Airpark, our home airport outside Washington DC -- early on a Friday afternoon, with big plans to look for the fall foliage en route...
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'False Contradiction' and the Never-Ending Big Question About China
Exposure to modern China leaves you with an endlessly expanding list of specific questions*, plus one unchanging Big Question. That big question, in various forms, is where this whole high-speed...
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Between Flights
This morning, KGAI, Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg, Maryland. At bottom, 2006-vintage Cirrus SR-22. At top, 2013-vintage young Great Blue Heron. (Thanks to Steve Inkellis for the photo.)
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'50 Greatest Breakthroughs,' the Illustrated and Expanded Edition
Thomas Perry, an artist and designer living in Osaka, sends this timeline companion to our current cover story on the 50 most significant breakthroughs since the discovery of the wheel. He explains his...
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My Surprising Email of the Day
Going on a trip tomorrow. Of the countless United flights I've taken over the aeons, for many millions of miles all around the world, not one has ever had Wi-Fi coverage. Unlike Alaska, Delta,...
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Two Ways of Looking at a Landing
A week ago at this time, my wife and I were in Eastport, Maine -- and I was flying the hour-long ferry route down to Portland, Maine, to pick up Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace and his engineer, Brendan...
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How the #1 'Breakthrough' Helps Modern Communities Survive
Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Last week, in the "50 Greatest Breakthroughs" story from the current issue, our panel of experts decreed that the printing press was the #1 most...
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Terrorism Could Never Threaten American Values—the 'War on Terror' Does
Nixon in his "I am not a crook" press conference.It's an established and obvious point, a corollary to the famous post-Watergate principle that "it's always the cover-up, never the crime." The "crime"...
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'Let Me Stress How Shocking These NSA Revelations Are': A View From Inside...
In response to the Snowden-generated news yesterday about warrantless NSA penetration of Google and Yahoo data services—as opposed to getting information from those companies via subpoena and FISA...
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From D.C.: Long-Awaited Good News, Long-Brewing Bad News
1) Long-anticipated note of sanity from the FAA: Passengers will shortly be able to use tablets, iPads, music players, and similar non-transmitting devices even during those perilous moments when "the...
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Small Town, Big Tides, Bigger Ambitions: Ocean Renewable Power in Eastport
The device above, shown in a company video from the Ocean Renewable Power Company, or ORPC, shows the installation of a gigantic piece of equipment that I saw while visiting the small town of...
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Down East Down Under
By Deborah Fallows In a recent post, I mentioned that the term “Down East” in Maine has origins in sailing terms, when prevailing winds sent ships from Boston sailing downwind (hence down) to head...
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America-Going-to-Hell Watch, Heady Topper Dept.
Don't worry -- it's not what you're thinking. The Alchemist brewing company, maker of the famed Heady Topper beer, is not closing closing. Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more But it...
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