The story of last week’s “miracle on the Hudson” is almost unbelievable.  The sudden loss of all power in both jet engines within minutes of takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport left pilot Chelsey Sullenberger III (Sully) with few options, none of them particularly promising.  His Airbus A320 was loaded with 150 passengers, three […]

            As presidential transitions go, this one has lasted about as long (11 weeks) as most.  It just seems like it has lasted forever, kind of the way the last two months of school used to drag on before summer vacation finally arrived.  (And why did that vacation period then always fly by like some […]

            Both Vice-President Cheney and his puppet, er, boss, have given media interviews over the last few weeks in which they have attempted (Cheney more blatantly, Bush more quixotically) to revise the record of their administration’s accomplishments.               Mr. Cheney defiantly, if somnolently, asserts the invasion of Iraq was fully justified; Mr. Bush continues […]

(Ed. note: E. Haig, a Sacramento writer who specializes in reviews of artistic performances, offers this annual summary of the top performances he reviewed during 2008.)             The Sacramento performing arts scene was elevated immensely this past year by stage productions.  And in at least four instances, those productions were the result of the efforts […]