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All 24 Hours News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
By Jane M. Von Bergen INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The leading question of the day, President Obama said in a widely publicized jobs forum in Washington today, is: "How do we get businesses to start hiring again?" In Philadelphia, ideas and answers to that question flowed today in the Convention Center, where State Reps. Dwight Evans and John Myers, both city Democrats, held a local version attended...
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Whispers in the Loggia (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Fresh off a Plenary briefing on their efforts to combat same-sex marriage -- and as financial disclosures highlighted the assistance of over 40 dioceses in funding the movement behind this month's citizens' veto of Maine's law permitting the unions -- 15 leading US bishops joined in signing an ecumenical "call to conscience" last week that not only decried the "impulse to redefine marriage,"...
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The Beat Review (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
John Myers is one of those people gifted with enough creativity in their minds combined with an exceptional talent in creating wonderful music. The Camden Town-born mulit-instrumentalist/vocalist is no stranger to the world of popular music. Gaining much popularity as a record producer and as a songwriter, his works already have been featured in some of popstars making waves today such as Kylie Minogue,...
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No fighting, no biting! (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
On November 3rd Maine's #1 ballot initiative asked voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci. The Catholic Church was instrumental in getting signatures on the ballot initiative, getting out the message, and getting out the vote. Every Sunday all summer there were inserts in the bulletin explaining...
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Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
InsideCatholic.com by Rev. Dwight Longenecker 11/13/09 Msgr. William Stetson is the secretary of the pastoral provision, the structure provided by Pope John Paul II in 1980 to enable married former Episcopal priests to be ordained as Catholic priests. The pastoral provision also empowers the establishment of "personal parishes" -- groups to which the Church grants special pastoral care (in...
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Creative Minority Reader (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
American Papist tells the unwritten story of the November elections. On January 19th 2009 the new governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, will be sworn-in to office at 11:30 AM. But earlier that day, at 9:00 AM, he will attend a Mass celebrated by Archbishop John Myers at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Chris Christie, you see, is a practicing pro-life, pro-family Catholic. I wrote in my...
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Standing on My Head (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Instant interview with Monsignor William Stetson: Mgr. William Stetson is the Secretary of the Pastoral Provision. The Pastoral Provision is the structure provided by Pope John Paul II in 1980 to enable married former Episcopal Priests to be ordained as Catholic priests. The Pastoral Provision also empowers the establishment of personal parishes which use the Anglican Use liturgy. A 'personal parish'...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
TMZ's latest Maria Shriver gotcha moment was published today after they observed her park an Escalade for one hour in a red zone while going to the doctor's office in Santa Monica. Miraculously, the aggressive parking enforcement people did not catch this. "Some advice 2 First Lady: TMZ isn't going away," twittered John Myers of KQED Capitol Notes , referencing the recent paparazzi crackdown...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The theatre had Al Hirschfeld. The cocktail crowd has Jill DeGroff. Jill is cocktail pioneer Dale DeGroff's wine, and can be seen accompanying her husband at various cocktail events. As her husband's better half, she's had ample opportunity to meeting the eminent bartenders, mixologists and "brand ambassadors" of the world, and has caught their essences in ink and paint. Jill has just published...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I attended the two-day "preview" of the new Manhattan Cocktail Classic, a cocktail caucus that is now supposed to materialize in Manhattan every May. Or, rather, I attended half of it. My schedule only permitted me to hang about on Saturday. Luckily, that gave me the opportunity to attend a panel by Milk & Honey's Sasha Pestraske. Petraske doesn't do many public seminars; his appearances...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
One of the things you expect when you attend cocktail-centric conclaves like the Manhattan Cocktail Classic (held this past weekend) is you'll discover some weird and different new cocktail trend or product looming on the horizon. The first person I saw at the MCC was Portland, Maine, bartender John Myers. I put the question to him, and he said, "Oh, yeah. I just had something this morning that's...
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Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Manhattan Cocktail Classic, New York's first cocktail centered convention, begins tomorrow at Astor Center—or, at least, what they're calling a two-day preview of the real event, which will happen in May. I'll be there at the "Official Bar," which, I predict, will be where all the action is. As I reported for the New York Times, it will be manned by a rotating roster of fantastic...
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D-Day (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Around 11:00 this morning some senior Yacht Party members and their acolytes will stand in front of microphones in Sacramento trumpeting a report about state labor regulations and small businesses. They can be expected to say that the real problem with the California economy is all those gosh darn regulations, and if only businesses could free themselves from the iron boot of - I don't know, the 40-hour...
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Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
John Myers in the Duluth News Tribune : Substantial areas of what is now Northland forest may someday change to savanna or grassland, according to University of Minnesota scientists detailing the impacts of climate change in a newly published research paper. The paper predicts Duluth-area forest types — red and white pine, birch and aspen — will recede northeast to about Thunder Bay, while...
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LAist (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Leo Carillo State Beach is one of the many threatened state parks | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist A spokesman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that the list of parks slated for closure will not be released this week as officials continue to work to save more money, therefore keeping more open, according to John Myers of KQED . "It is a really terrible situation to be in," Schwarzenegger...
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