James Mills

3 weeks ago | outsideonline.com | James Mills

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. What's your favorite national park? After two decades as a journalist with a specialty in outdoor recreation, that's the question I am most often asked. I've had the pleasure of visiting most of the big ones.

2 months ago | tandfonline.com | James Mills

AbstractAs a contributor to the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, Australia was one of nineteen governments allocated reparations from Western Germany by the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (IARA), the multilateral organisation established under the Paris Agreement on Reparation from Germany in 1946.

2 months ago | latitude38.com | James Mills |Monica Grant

In December 2023, during a blow off Puerto Escondido, Salty Dancer’s mooring lines parted in the wee hours and she started drifting toward shore. Somehow missing 60-some other boats in the anchorage, the boat ended up on the rocky south breakwater. No one was aboard at the time — owner “J” Mills had flown home for the holidays just a week earlier. Luckily, one of the marina guards saw it happen, and he and the marina staff got the boat off by daybreak.

Aug 8, 2024 | wehoonline.com | James Mills

Anti-smoking advocates hoping for a sweeping ban on smoking in West Hollywood apartments were dealt a crushing defeat Monday night as the City Council opted to allow tenants in apartment buildings to continue to smoke both tobacco and cannabis in their units. The Council cited medicinal uses of smoking marijuana and a failure to get sufficient input from residents for its decision not to implement the ban.

Sep 21, 2023 | truewestmagazine.com | James Mills

There are many disconcerting issues that a young historian of the American frontier must confront as the 10-year anniversary of the release of Django Unchained recently passed without acknowledgement from True West and those who stopped paying attention to pop-culture when Reagan left office. The academic cliques presently holding positions of influence are seemingly obsessed with patting each other on the back for acting like Gandhi.