Librarian Downplays Lawyers' Efforts to Exonerate "Shoeless Joe" Jackson

Link to September 12 nj.com article, "Campaign to exonerate Shoeless Joe Jackson".

Excerpt: National Baseball Hall of Fame librarian Jim Gates said several researchers who have examined the papers have said nothing to suggest they will clear Jackson, who died in 1951. And at the Chicago History Museum, which purchased the documents from Asinof's estate after his death in 2008, curator Peter Alter said there's no "smoking gun" that exonerates Jackson.

Could You Translate That Into English for Me?

Link to September 11 New York Times article, "Goodbye, Gobbledygook".

Excerpt: The fact tag sits next to PCs at stores like Best Buy and Fry’s, bewildering one consumer after another. It trumpets things like DDR2 RAM, 5400 r.p.m. hard drives, Turion benchmark scores and the robust L2 cache sizes of Core 2 Duos.

Once cherished, the fact tag has turned into an object of scorn as PC makers finally reach a realization that many other industries discovered ages ago: the consumer is truly king.

Pennsylvania Budget Stalement and Free Library of Philadelphia's Call to Action

Read it and weep. (Excerpt: We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009.)