Stephen Yeargin

Back in the spring of 2002, I traveled with a group of student government officials to march on the state capitol building to voice our opposition to impending budget cuts to higher education. We sold brownies and cookies on War Memorial Plaza as part of the protest. At the end of the day, the proceeds [...]

The words “unseasonably __” have come to mean little so far this year, but they are being tossed around anyway. We have had two or three snowy/icy days lately that brought the city to its knees (or out to play, depending on your perspective). And today, in February, we had 60 degrees and sunny without [...]

Four years ago this week I was sitting in a hotel room near Emory University watching the Winter Olympics and celebrating what ended up being one of the high points of my collegiate career. Another newspaper staffer was sitting next to me as we watched an athlete (her name is irrelevant) fall victim to what [...]

I have learned an important (and somewhat expensive) lesson about buying appliances. Nothing to do with the brands or features, but rather the simple engineering problem of an item of a fixed size needing to fit into a fixed size space. If the space is smaller than the item, even by a little, one of [...]