Jim Baumann
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The Believe Project: Instilling a desire to help othersOct 09, 2018 10:00 am - Editor's note: This story is part of our National Newspaper section. It started on a whim with a why-not-just-ask email addressed to the editor of the Daily Herald ...
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Grammar Moses hands down some lightly used tabletsOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - It's election season, folks, and we're all very busy trying to save the republic by interviewing candidates and writing endorsements in advance of the Nov. 6 election. A...
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Grammar Moses: What's the difference between 'from' and 'than'?Sep 29, 2018 1:00 am - I've been troubled lately, as usually is the case when I listen to radio advertisements, about glaring word choice problems. Often, my gripe is with the use of fuzzy mat...
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Grammar Moses: 'Lodestar' is my word of the daySep 08, 2018 1:00 am - I just love it when a word truly makes it into the zeitgeist. It must have been a red-letter day indeed when "zeitgeist" entered the zeitgeist around 1835. I wrote about...
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Grammar Moses: In defense of 'thing'Sep 01, 2018 1:00 am - For years, one of my favorite movies was John Carpenter's 1982 remake of the James Arness walking carrot horror film, "The Thing From Another World." In this "The Thing,...
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Grammar Moses: On volcanology and portmanteausAug 25, 2018 1:00 am - My dad is always up for a robust conversation about plate tectonics, concentric urban design theory and the vagaries of communism. Just ask any of my friends, who probab...
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Grammar Moses: This is the epicenter of a grammar revolutionAug 18, 2018 1:00 am - "I have noticed an increasing use of 'epicenter' in the news over the past several years: the 'epicenter' of crime wave or the disease," writes Jim Mann. "I think that t...
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Grammar Moses: A tortuous explanation of a torturous encounterAug 11, 2018 1:00 am - I have a habit - an annoying one, I'm sure - of walking down a row of cubicles in the office en route to a meeting and, with a mere glance at a computer screen, finding ...
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Grammar Moses: I'm shredding this column so you don't have toAug 04, 2018 1:00 am - I get inspiration for column topics in the weirdest ways. While driving home the other evening, I decided to leave the news behind and spend a half-hour decompressing w...
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Grammar Moses: Don't bonk on this spoken-word columnJul 28, 2018 1:00 am - In my line of work, I do my best to discourage people from using jargon in stories. Leave that to the trade magazines, I say. We have a general audience, and we must tra...