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Please drop the first-elected whatever

Is it really news that Karen Bass will become the first female mayor of Los Angeles? In an era where women have already run Chicago, Phoenix, Fort Worth, Charlotte, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Boston, the gender of the new Los Angeles mayor should not have dominated the ...

Basketball!

The Uniontown Red Raiders of my youth never lost a game.ThatĢƵ an exaggeration.They may have lost, but not nearly as much as they won.The Red Raider basketball teams of the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s functioned as precision-made machines – calibrated to destroy enemy high school ...

A special speakership: Nancy Pelosi

Wielding power is just as important as gaining power. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker that Republicans love to hate, is expert at both.Pelosi, 82, one of the most consequential speakers in U.S. history, has announced she is stepping away from the role, in time for a new ...

Be like the zebra and relax

In the book, “Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers,” Robert Sapolsky exposes us to the concepts of stress management and biology. When addressing diet and stress management, he gives the example of a young lawyer who decides that “red meat, fried foods, and a couple of beers per dinner ...

Decline in the number of homeless veterans is a sign of progress

“One veteran experiencing homelessness will always be one too many,” according to Denis McDonough, the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.At the beginning of 2022, there were 33,136 homeless veterans in the United States, a report released last week found. Imagine Star Lake Amphitheater ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> Across the coverage areas of the <em>ĢƵ, Observer-Reporter, Greene County Messenger</em> and <em>The Almanac</em>, churches, organizations and individuals came together ...