They painted a school bus every color there was and put a sign on the front with where they were going. Somebody spelled it wrong. Nobody ever fixed it.

Sixty years later it comes back to San Francisco.

Also: nine days underground, and two men come up through a hole in the mud. A drone found lying inside an airport fence, and what it was lying next to. Wool on a dying glacier. A hurricane whose trouble is not where it is. Something floating in the medicine on a hospital crash cart. A fine paid eight months ago and a lesson apparently unlearned. Nineteen hundred Chicagoans doing to themselves what they usually save for company. And a ring under a rock, twenty eight years gone.

Friday, September 4th, 2026. The Sterling Report. News and comment.