It’s a cool time in local sports. Pacers are on a heater, Colts have won four straight, Purdue has reasonable national title aspirations and IU is off to a great start in the Big Ten. Sounds like a good time to subscribe to https://t.co/jM0EBtdhaP. Just saying.
Fossil fuel interests have large, yet often murky, presence at climate talks, AP analysis finds. A detailed look at who goes to these UN negotiations, why & what kind of influence is there. https://t.co/dHgTEoGV7I
Long Brooks Robinson story I believe I told on radio:
When the Orioles played in Memorial Stadium, the PA announcer was named Rex Barney. When a fan made a great catch of a foul ball, he'd say, "Give that fan a contract." At a game with my dad and Brooks fouls off a pitch. Dad makes a leaping catch, everyone cheers, Rex does his thing. I'm over the moon. I got a Brooks Robinson foul ball. Can't believe it.
Next day at school, I tell everyone. Obviously. After school we have to play catch with this ball. Obviously. I figure I can throw a major league curve ball with it. I can't. I throw it low, my friend can't catch it. Now is when I mention we lived at the top of a hill. Ball rolls down the street and into a sewer.
The Brooks ball is gone. I never told my dad when he was alive. I always look up to the sky at this point and say, "Sorry 'bout that, Pop."
I tell this story decades later at a charity event in Baltimore. Turns out a man at our table did some work with Brooks. A week later a box arrives at my house with this and a note:
Hope this makes up for the one that got away, Brooks.
Indeed it did, Brooks. What a man.
US employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August in sign of a still-resilient labor market https://t.co/wdnr0uws3c Great to help out AP's Paul Wiseman who anchored the story
Think this has gotten lost in shuffle given Powell's obsession with core services ex-housing inflation-- this is from Atlanta Fed President Bostic's speech in South Africa today:
Great article by @dgmchugh from @AP on how Russia is laboring under the weight of western sanctions. The West could do a lot more - it could lower the G7 price cap to $50, which would increase the pain on Putin. But existing sanctions work. https://t.co/6DpVHawhN8
Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Add context. Be open-minded. Rinse. Repeat. The inimitable @Kathygannon on the subject she knows best: Afghanistan.
JACKSON HOLE (AP) _ The continued resilience of the U.S. economy could require further interest rate increases to combat inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday in a closely watched speech.
Come to this story to learn how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affected ski prices, stay for Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic’s take on the economy (from @AP): https://t.co/mTfgBLqlXL
@realMUGrad@Anna__Johnson@joshboak Headline inflation, which does include groceries and energy, has fallen from 9.1% year-over-year in June 2022 to 3.2% in July.