John Hart

Last-minute ballots present challenge for Nevada County election officials

GRASS VALLEY - The downside of the convenience and cost savings of mail ballots was apparent Wednesday: Election officials spent the day after Election Day counting thousands of vote-by-mail ballots that were handed in at the...

John Donovan: Potential free-agent bargains

These days everybody's a general manager. Everybody has an idea to pitch, a trade to consummate, a free agent to sign. We all have our own beliefs about how to build a winning team, about who's worth what for how long. I saw a...

Karzai calls for Obama to change war strategy

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has demanded a change in the way the NATO alliance fights the war against the Taliban. He's principally alarmed by the mounting civilian death toll. President Karzai says the US President...

It's been a tough year for farmers

Photo for The Union by John Hart Local farmers are reeling from the combined effects of a late spring frost, a smoky pall during the summer caused by wildfires and a statewide drought. Chris Bierwagen’s peach and apple trees...

42 Pieces of Obama Artwork - Celebrating the 44th President of the United States (CLUSTER)

No politician in history has inspired more pieces of artwork in a single election season than Barack Obama. These Nanobamas, created by University of Michigan mechanical engineer John Hart, are perhaps…

Voting starts in Nevada County

Photo for The Union by John Hart Voters arrived early at the polls in Nevada County as Election Day opened, with lines growing longer in some places as the morning unfolded. One precinct with a heavy turnout early in the day...

Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 By Ronald Reagan (Editor's note: This essay originally ran in the spring of 1983 in the quarterly journal Human Life Review.) We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life — the unborn —...

Nanobama: World's Tiniest Candidate Portrait

The presidential candidates have been under a microscope for the last year, but today, the focus on Sen. Barack Obama's face reached the nanoscale. Sculpted using nanolithography by University of Michigan mechanical engineer,...

Hart slams first five experiment

Former All Blacks coach John Hart has warned against any future moves to return Stephen Donald to first five and play Daniel Carter outside him in the New Zealand backline. There was a lack of direction in the test win against...

Rugby Union: Josh Lewsey in at the death but wobbly Wasps miss semis

English clubs may not cherish the EDF Energy Cup in manner of the Welsh, but the Guinness Premiership's wobbling champions just about avoided another bout of blushing yesterday thanks to two scrappy tries in 10 minutes.Wasps,...