Sorry about that, folks

A Note from Mike, the editor: If you’ve been trying to get to your favorite Times site and haven’t been able — well, we got hacked (part II of the hack we suffered last fall — we missed a couple of barn doors to close, it seems when we fixed things up). While we’re making progress, you may see some glitches here and there for a bit — we ask for your patience. I’ve...

This is the week that was…weird, but not in a fun way

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa Well, it’s been a week. Between the sheer joy of dealing with hackers who briefly locked me out of these sites (thankfully, I was able to quickly recover things and build a digital moat around the server — which hopefully will defend it better) the emergence of a new COVID variant and Dr. Memet Oz declaring his candidacy for U.S. Senate, it’s...