The Bottle Rockets, Pioneering Alt-Country Band, Are Breaking Up
The Bottle Rockets, the pioneering alt-country band from Missouri, are breaking up. The quartet announced the news on Tuesday (March 2), citing co-founder and lead singer Brian Henneman s desire to spend more time at home as the reason for the group s demise. Although he’s in good health, he’s been feeling the passage of time and has lost interest in anything that distracts from or takes him away from home, a statement from the band explains of Henneman. Unfortunately, this means the Bottle Rockets can’t continue as we know it.
ROCKFORD Two years after he was acquitted of a first-degree murder charge, former Rockford resident Patrick Pursley is celebrating another legal victory.
Judge Joseph McGraw granted Pursley’s petition for a certificate of innocence on Friday in the 1993 shooting death of Andy Ascher.
Pursley was convicted of Ascher’s murder in 1994 and spent 23 years of a life sentence in prison before he was granted a new trial after ballistics tests showed the Taurus 9 mm handgun used to convict him was not the murder weapon.
“I am convinced by the preponderance of the evidence that Mr. Pursley is actually innocent of the charge,” McGraw said in court Friday.
have proposed gradually increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, with the stated intention to raise the pay of low wage workers. Sounds like great news for the low‐paid, doesn’t it?
An old saying from economist Thomas Sowell is that “there are no solutions, only trade‐offs.” That is as true about the minimum wage as anything else. The Congressional Budget Office summarizes the mainstream economic consensus on the effects of the Democrats’ proposed aggressive major minimum wage hike fairly well and I don’t think the trade‐off is worth it.
Yes, for those workers affected who are lucky enough to maintain their jobs, hours, and existing perks, an enforced minimum wage hike through raising hourly wage rates will increase their overall compensation. The CBO estimates that 0.9 million people will be taken out of poverty as a result. But a consequence of raising the mandatory wage floor that aggressively, the CBO predicts, will be t
Advertising writer Paul Burke pays tribute to the late Richard Foster, a true master of the copywriting craft who could slip into any style.
The late Richard Foster: a copywriter who could slip into any style
The first line of copy is always the hardest.
Richard Foster told me that.
He also told me this: you’ll know you’ve got your first line of copy if the second one comes to you almost immediately.
Then the third, then the fourth. By which time you should have the reader engaged.
Still with me? Good. Then he was right. Of course he was.
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