December 4 Tom Jennings publishes FidoNews Issue 1, an electronic newsletter meant to give information and news about Fido and FidoNet. It continues to publish once a week to the present day. Jennings explains the format of the newsletter, indicates he would like to make some FidoNet bumper stickers (without paying the $165 for it) and asks that he immediately be replaced as editor..Other commissioners say this new place needs a roof for the University of Minnesota baseball team, which will be otherwise out in the cold. (The new $500 million Twins ballpark is roofless, of course. Not to be snotty, but maybe somebody should have thought about our Gophers when the Twins bill passed.).

In an interview with the Southern People Weekly published Wednesday, Dec. 12, Chan is quoted as saying that it's OK to scold China and hold protests. But he adds that there should be regulations on what can and can't be protested.Shoot Rudy, the Finance Minister announced last month that he pl