Email Author Howard Blume

2004 Stories by Howard Blume

• Ghosts of Tappers Past

  published April 1, 2004

  Squeezed against the wall of a basement dance studio just off Wilshire Boulevard, I watched a run-through of Steve Zee’s All in Goo... More >>

• Talk Radio for Lefties

  published March 25, 2004

  To fully understand the reasoning behind Air America, the new, avowedly left-of-Bush radio network, it helps to drive through South Carolina... More >>

• We the People — of Iraq

  published March 18, 2004

  It’s hard not to be impressed by the Iraqi constitution and what it portends for that nation’s future — with its guarantees... More >>

• Aborting Abortion Rights — Then and Now

  published March 18, 2004

  The latest challenge to legal abortions emerged this week from South Dakota’s Legislature, which came within one vote of outlawing abortion... More >>

• Searching for the Heart of John Edwards

  published February 12, 2004

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• A Personal Triumph — AT RISK

  published February 12, 2004

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• A Southern Stand

  published February 5, 2004

  COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — On the night John Edwards put everything he had into South Carolina and got a must-win victory on the bac... More >>

• Swift With Tortoises

  published January 22, 2004

  Photo by Issa Sharp David Morafka, a renowned expert on endangered desert tortoises, died last week at 58 of pancreatic cancer that he blamed... More >>

• Promises Kept, Promises Broken

  published January 15, 2004

  The new governor’s days as a keeper of promises officially ended with last week’s release of his proposed state budget. At last, Arno... More >>