Wilson is 37 percent white. The Beacon staff is 76 percent white.   The Beacon’s biggest shortcoming is our lack of racial diversity. This isn’t news to anyone. We talk about this every year, but we have made little...

Hard, fist-sized balls, seemingly unbattable, rain down from the sky to wreck homes and destroy lawn ornaments. Plastic pucks, seemingly unwhackable, slide across the frozen tundra to injure pedestrians and trip polar bears. Frisbees,...