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Cheers: We’re frequently told that one event or another is a once-in-a-lifetime experience when, in actuality, it is something that might well happen again in somebodyĢƵ lifetime. But the solar eclipse that is set to happen on Monday, April 8, lives up to the once-in-a-lifetime hype. As a ...

Triggered by the comeback of the Martens!

By Nick Jacobs The headline, “Engineering a Comeback” by Deborah Weisberg in the Pittsburgh Quarterly, immediately caught my attention. At first, I thought it might have been a political article which was something that I had not expected from that publication. Who was it ...

Transformation of school libraries inevitable, worthwhile

If you’re old enough and took a language arts class in junior high or high school, you probably remember learning about the particulars of a library card catalog and the finer points of the Dewey Decimal System. Even for kids who loved reading and libraries it was, letĢƵ be honest, pretty ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: If you’ve never heard of Amos Miller, he is an Amish farmer from the Lancaster area whose plight has become a cause celebre for libertarians and free-market fundamentalists because he has been selling raw dairy milk to customers without a permit. The Pennsylvania Department of ...

Immigrants are a boost to the economy, not a drain on it

A well-worn argument of nativists and xenophobes is that immigrants come to this country seeking only benefits, unlike “our” grandparents and great-grandparents, who found prosperity through back-breaking toil and relentless sacrifice. There is no doubt that immigrants who came to this ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: Industries like airlines and hotels have what is known as “dynamic pricing,” where prices are adjusted based on demand. For instance, prices for hotel rooms in cities like Cleveland and Erie in the first weekend of April are going to be much more expensive than they typically are ...