Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal news reporter and columnist and the author of several works of fiction. He sleeps until noon each day and regrets nothing. Mark has several exciting hobbies, all of which are none of your business. Seriously, you don’t want to know. This page is a collection of his Street Talk and Talk of the Town columns.
Street Talk
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October 27The kitchen, the living room, the little room you use as an office, it all becomes too familiar and you begin to develop resentments for inanimate objects.
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October 20On Halloween night, the rules are that there ain't no rules. Except, you know. This year. This year, there are nothing BUT rules
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October 15Around here, people are ripping up campaign signs in the dark of night. In other parts of the country, they have advanced to burning down businesses, toppling statutes and shooting one another on the streets over differences of opinion.
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October 7Just thinking about the act of writing about the politics of the day triggered a gag reflex so powerful, it nearly made me throw up on my cat again.
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October 6These were the days before the internet and cellphones, but I tell you, rumors of a missing kid still had a way of spreading like wildfire. Word spread through corner stores, laundromats, lumber yards, hair salons . . .
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September 23I'm pretty sure that simply by thinking real hard, I could grow a mustache on the spot.
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September 16Objectivity, according to Professor Emeritus Ted Glasser of Stanford University, is just too cumbersome, and it gets in the way of what a journalist should consider his or her REAL job: activism
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August 25
Talk of the Town
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October 25
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October 5
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September 28
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September 20
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