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Six years ago this Friday, a major power grid failed and a stripe of Northeastern North America was plunged into darkness. For a special anniversary Of Recent Note we want you to tell us: What are your memories of the 2003 blackout?
Email your story to bridget@themorningnews.org by Thursday, August 13, at 9 p.m. Eastern. Entries should be around 150 words.
TODAY’S FEATURE
Sitting at our new surveys desk,
MIKE DERI SMITH rounds up the recent trends in global corruption, from Berlusconi to
Jersey Shore, to New Yorkers paying rent to the Shah of Iran.
OUR MAN IN BOSTON
How far back must one go to find an American act of national decency? Seventy years, it turns out.
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Star Black is a poet, photographer, and collage artist living and working in New York City. She’s released five books of poems, has taught...