The house is a little quieter today.
A little emptier.
It’s just the two of us now.
Youngest Son bought a house a few weeks ago, and we knew that meant that Middle Son would be moving out of our place and into the house YS had been living in for the last few years.
That happened Saturday.
MS has moved out before. He shared an apartment with at least one of his brothers for a while right after graduation, so his leaving wasn’t a new thing.
But now, for the first time in thirty years, it’s just me and Diana in our home. We officially have an empty nest.
Sure, Youngest Daughter will be home from college in a couple of weeks. But she’s only going to be here for a few weeks until she moves into a campus apartment with one of her best friends.
This move wasn’t as emotionally difficult for me as it was to say goodbye to Number Two Son. That one was hard because we didn’t know he was leaving that day; we thought his departure was Sunday, not Saturday. Maybe after having most of the kids move out, I’ve gotten used to it.
And MS is just ten minutes down the road, and he’s not facing some of the risks Number Two Son faced when he enlisted.
Still…
The house is a little quieter today.
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Wrongful Convictions
Henry Jamerson was convicted in 1991 for rape and other counts related to the assault of Kayleen Davis and robbery of Ma Bell’s restaurant in Tulsa. His conviction was overturned in July 2024 after a DNA sample used against him was shown to belong to another man.
He’s won a lawsuit against the City of Tulsa for $26.25 million.
By statute, Oklahoma owes him $50,000 per year of unlawful incarceration, or about $1.1 million. They haven’t paid him yet, and the state says it’s not going to.
$26M later, why Henry Jamerson says he’s still owed money
Newsboys Lawsuit
Wes Campbell, owner of Newsboys, has filed a lawsuit against over a dozen defendants, including MercyMe, several promotional organizations, World Vision, Micah Tyler, and Julie Roys of The Roys Report, as well as Jessica Morris. The complaint is 265 pages and alleges collusion between the various promoters, reporters, and artists to exclude Newsboys from the CCM industry.
I’m…dubious. The idea that this many organizations would actively conspire to push a hugely popular group out of the industry really just boggles my mind. I can’t even conceive of why they’d do it, much less how someone came up with the idea of “Hey, let’s jump on the bandwagon surrounding the Michael Tait reports and throw some fake allegations around.”
No matter how this shakes out, it’s going to rend the curtain that’s covered the CCM concert industry for decades, and Campbell is likely to learn more about the Streisand Effect than he ever wanted to. No, he’s not trying to hide anything. But he may well discover he doesn’t want the attention this lawsuit will bring to his industry.
You can read the complaint at the website Campbell’s attorneys set up.
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