Hi! I’m Debbie. This is serendipitous because I literally just finished East of Eden and have been dying to talk about it. I’m so excited for this book club. Cathy Ames is one of the most appalling characters I’ve ever read, so I’m especially looking forward to that discussion. Can’t wait to hear what everyone else thinks.

Someone at the FP ought to do an investigatory piece on the Good Law Project. They are attempting to use the tragic death of Jason Arday as an excuse to limit press freedom. Their latest target was the respected Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare (who happens to be black). Bakare at the initial request of Arday spent a year investigating various claims and eventually published his piece debunking many of Arday's claims. The GLP is unsatisfied and published this hit piece (they were forced to upda

The town gave the land. The owner of the business promised to finance half of it. Now it is stalled. What is going on. Who secured the money for this? This might make a good story. After a federal financing package fell through, construction of Blue Star NBR‘s medical glove plant in Wythevillehas stalled. Now, Blue Star needs $230 million to start operations, says CEO Scott Maier. “It seems silly for all of this to fall to the wayside,” he says. “We don’t want to just sit and twiddle our t