The great Limburger Cheese War, Part I Once a depressed area, Green County, Wisconsin became one of the wealthiest in the state. Roughly 125 years ago, Swiss immigrants arrived, bringing their cheese making skills with them. A local banker took the next step, asking the few families who were producing Limburger to stack slabs of their cheese in front of his bank.
Nov. 1: A bad golf shot, a house sitter, and a cat In that balmy idiom known as the English language (that is, as it's spoken in Soho Square, Liverpool and in a few long ago abandoned colonies), Foozle translates as a "bad golf shot."
Oct. 11: The news media fails us in our time of need Almost thirty years ago, British writer Malcolm Muggeridge complained about the growing amount of news available to the public, particularly on television. News was becoming a background hum in our lives, a ceaseless drip. It was, he said, a kind of Newsak complimenting the Musak that permeated department stores, elevators and corporate telephone lines.
Oct. 4: Listen to the whispers of the artists I had every intention that this column would be about Hawaiian art -shirts, outrigger canoes, hula dances, slack key guitar or something else I'd find there - but we cancelled our trip to Hawaii.
Sept. 29: A solution to this Mars-Venus thing What is it with men and pillowcases? It's an astounding conundrum of physics gone awry; a mechanical, logical happening that should happen and doesn't.
Cathy Shaw - State Street
Aug. 23: A fly in the ointment To some in the Legislature it seemed like a good idea to challenge the voter-approved constitutional term limits passed over a decade ago. Everything neatly fell into place as the lower courts overturned term limits following legislation designed to speed the challenge through the courts. But now lawmakers are dealing with the possibility of nearly all the citizen initiatives coming unraveled under the same legal theory used to challenge term limits.
