American freeskier Hunter Hess got to the end of his successful run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying, then leaned into the camera. He bent his left thumb and forefinger into the shape of an “L," lifted ...

“I’m right here nigger,” a voice screamed in the dark Lawrence High School parking lot. Nothing like a high school basketball game, in this case a quarterfinal showdown between top-seed Lawrence and ...

The Milwaukee Brewers learned a valuable lesson last week. Don’t mess with the “L” flag. It might have been a coincidence that the Brewers were swept in four games by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

This repository contains the Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions extension code as well as a quick start tutorial and samples illustrating how to use the binding in different ways. The types of ...

After several decades of writing books and blogs about the culture wars, academic freedom and campus free expression, I’ve started this column to illuminate some of the key debates about these issues, ...

In early June 2025, a claim spread online that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "America cannot function if President Trump has to deal with co-equal branches of government having ...

Mulch provides a variety of benefits for gardens, including weed control, temperature regulation, and moisture retention. Organic mulches, like compost and wood chips, decompose over time, enriching ...

When I started in the newspaper business in 1964, it was customary for reporters to type “30″ at the end of their stories so editors would know it was complete. (Apparently editors back then couldn’t ...