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What's in an apostrophe?

Who reads more nuance into punctuation rules than copy editors? Food activists! In the California law that has regulated farmers markets since...
Mother Jones, 03/01/09 by Alexis Fitts · More from publication
aerobics

They call it Nia, or nonimpact aerobics, but don't let the name fool you; its practitioners get quite a workout. On a recent Sunday morning at...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 09/01/08 by ALEXIS FITTS -- · More from publication
Floating down the river, just like Huck Finn

It's a tale that's a testament to bibliophilia -- and to college student antics. Two 20-year-old Falcon High School friends, now students at the...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/12/08 by Alexis Fitts · More from publication
'Mr. Don' adds bit of formality at school

Back in the day, schoolmarms everywhere would have rapped a few knuckles if students had called them by their first names. One can only imagine...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/11/08 by ALEXIS FITTS · More from publication
A school with A green touch

Aline of cheerleaders knelt next to the red ribbon under a muted gray sky. Decked out in uniforms of navy blue and sparkly gold, the newly voted...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/11/08 by ALEXIS FITTS -- · More from publication
The right spAce for stArtups

David Schoenberger was like Goldilocks in need of office space, looking for something that would be neither too big nor too small, but "just right"...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/09/08 by ALEXIS FITTS · More from publication

HEAR MY PRAYER

It's the kind of request usually uttered in the strictest confidence to the most intimate of friends: "Please pray that spirit of anger and...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/09/08 by alexis fitts · More from publication
Suspect in murder pleads ignorance

Stephanie Deverick says she had no idea that Crystal Mawson intended to kill when she drove her to the residence of the 45-year- old mother with...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/08/08 by ALEXIS FITTS · More from publication
2nd trial opens for man accused of murder

Ryan Krueger says he is innocent in the 2001 slaying of 19-year- old college student Patricia Ann Elliott. Prosecutors cut a deal with the real...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/07/08 by ALEXIS FITTS · More from publication
Jury picked in 2nd trial

Prosecutors Tuesday began a second attempt to get a murder conviction against a former Fort Carson soldier accused of murdering a Colorado Springs...
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs), 08/06/08 by ALEXIS FITTS · More from publication