Persisters
Petula DvorakHumans who push, persevere, pivot and persist...despite all the sh*t.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 68 | Founded | 10 months ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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She kept playing until her dream came true
The dream was not an unusual one for an all-American child.
“Like any kid I definitely dreamed of playing in Yankee Stadium and having my name on the back of my pinstripe jersey,” said 23-year-old Paloma Benach.
And yes, she knew the limi...
The Black town that was bulldozed for an airport
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree”.
— Michael Crichton
I believe this brilliant Crichton quote is why decades of street reporting brought me to a fascination w...
Freedom of the Press started with a guy writing smack about this vainglorious New Yorker
The story of America’s press freedom begins with a nasty New Yorker and the things people wrote about him. He was called “spiteful,” “greedy,” “jealous,” “quick-tempered,” “dull,” “unlettered,” and “haughty”.
Enraged about the way the pres...
She was shot in the head 15 years ago
Courtesy of GIFFORDS
I still can’t get over that rare display of total unity on the House floor that day. Men and women, dark suits and (a few) colorful pantsuits, Republicans and Democrats, they all jumped to their feet and unanimously ch...
Hidden Persisters helped get us to Mars, too
It was 50 years ago this week that the world finally got a look at Mars.
So let’s look at some of the hidden persisters who helped get us there.
The world heard “Touchdown. We have touchdown!” on July 20, 1976 when a mission controller at...
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Last of the local columnists for The Washington Post (before they got rid of us), daughter of Czech immigrants, history curious, new empty nester, ADHD CEO of a house of Y chromosomes, married to a fellow Chaos Muppet, too profane for MSM
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