midwest
Lacey Donohue · 11/18/13 12:20AM
Twenty-Eight Tornadoes Break Out Across Five States
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 05/20/13 07:04AMTwo Dead After Second Winter Storm in Days Blasts Central U.S.
Maggie Lange · 02/26/13 09:29AMAnother blizzard just touched down in the U.S., hitting the nation's midsection early this morning. After hurricane-force winds whipped through the Texas panhandle, the storm moved to Oklahoma and Kansas, cutting off power to thousands and closing highways. It's already claimed two lives: a 21-year-old man whose SUV hit an icy part of the road, and a bystander killed after 15 inches of snow caved in part of a roof.
Strong Storm System Across Midwest: 121 Tornadoes Touch Down
Louis Peitzman · 04/15/12 09:24AMObama to Ride Bus Around Midwest, Yelling 'Jobs'
Jim Newell · 08/03/11 11:37AMDon't fret, Sarah Palin! Stay home in Arizona or Alaska, wherever you summer. Because President Obama has decided to do the Midwestern second leg of your bus tour for you. That's right: Obama will ride around on a bus, too, as part of the great White House "pivot" to a focus on jobs, which no longer exist.
Midwest and Northeast Prepare for Snow and Ice—Again
Brian Moylan · 01/31/11 03:05PMWithout an Aqua Net
Brian Moylan · 10/26/10 06:00PMMinnesota Gets Hit With Multiple Tornadoes
Jeff Neumann · 08/08/10 01:30PMJob market news: That's not slave labor, that's crowdsourcing!
Nick Douglas · 05/25/06 07:46PMIf an Editor Falls in Iowa, Does It Make a Sound?
Jesse · 04/18/06 03:16PMMedia Bubble: Area Man Actually Doesn't Give a Shit Anymore That the 'Onion'ers Moved Here From Wisconsin
Jesse · 01/30/06 03:49PM• The Onion Diet: Move to New York, eat sushi, slim down. [NYT]
• Sez Dumenco: Magazines will soon start to die, too, and Anna Wintour will lose her Town Car, and it's all Lucky's fault. Of course, he says it with words like "transactionality." [Ad Age]
• WSJ discovers people. [WSJ]
• Jack Shafer says newspapers better give him what he wants, or else they're just gonna wither and die. [Slate]
• Joel Stein, says Jon Friedman, is just like Oprah Winfrey. But, you know, poorer and whiter and Jewier. [MW]
• Journo types who drink tab: David Edelstein, Steve Brill, David Bradley, and Danny Goldberg. Now you know. [New Yorker]
• Layoffs at Blender. [WWD (second item)]
• Journalism needs to more money and time from owners, more facts, more international coverage, and more tough questions, says Dan Rather. Also, it would very much like a pony for its birthday. [LAT]
• If CW — the WB-UPN amalgam — works, a CNN-CBS News merger could finally happen. [Mediaweek]
In Ohio, They Cornhole Sober
Jesse · 10/21/05 10:05AMPublicists Love Cornholing (But We Pretty Much Knew That Already)
Jesse · 10/19/05 03:42PMAn actual press release sent to actual reporters by an actual PR firm earlier today:
Reader Mail: Somebody's Been Workshopping His Frustrated Emails
Jesse · 10/18/05 05:44PMWhoops: Today Was Cornhole Day on 'Today'
Jesse · 08/04/05 02:40PMUpdate: Cornholing on the 'Today' Show
Jesse · 08/03/05 01:12PMSeveral Midwestern readers — who knew we had such things? — write in to inform us that cornhole means something very different in Ohio than it does here in New York. There's even a whole website devoted to their version of the activity, which apparently involves tossing beanbags, or something like that.