In the News

As soon as I saw this in the morning paper, I told Mr. Maryn that I knew this guy, even though I've never laid eyes on him. Still, it was great to see an AW person get front-page coverage. Way to go, John!

Maryn, not above a little name dropping

In the manner of many two-name newspapers (New Orleans' Times-Picayune, St. Louis' Post Dispatch), the Democrat & Chronicle was formed by the merging of the city's two morning dailies, the Democrat and the Chronicle. Ten years ago, more or less, they absorbed the afternoon daily, the Times Union (itself a merged-name paper) but opted not to turn themselves into the Democrat & Chronicle-Times Union.

There, far more than you wanted to know, right? You can quit learning for the day now.

Maryn, dismissing class