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My fatherĢƵ father died when he was 8, just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Born in 1901, the grandfather I never knew died in 1941. It was the darkest of times for the family and country.Dr. Reuben Stiehm left a wife and four children, including baby Elizabeth. He was on the faculty of ...

The labor shortage and all those “help wanted” signs are the tip of the iceberg for PennsylvaniaĢƵ workforce. The state has a significant talent gap – the difference between the number of college-educated workers that businesses need versus the number in our labor force. ItĢƵ a ...

<em>EditorĢƵ note: Syndicated columnist Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. This is a reprint from 2019.</em>Want to reduce the number of mass shootings in the United States? Then letĢƵ ramp up efforts to stop domestic abuse.Just as a red flag is raised when a child ...

With the exception of Jan. 6, 2021, itself, maybe the most traumatic day of the Trump presidency was June 1, 2020 – the day peaceful American citizens protesting the police murder of George Floyd were forcibly removed from Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White ...

The future looks like a crapshoot

You might say I’ve been a cockeyed optimist all these years. Or foolish and naive. I’ve never been with the people who proclaim that the country and the world are going to hell, that we’re doomed, that life will be miserable in the year ... well, anytime in the future.“I’m glad I’m ...

Don’t run out of toilet paper

?I read an expression the other day: “Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end of the roll, the faster it goes.” If I were writing this two years ago, it would be with a lot deeper fear, but there are always lifeĢƵ question marks.?My wife tested positive for ...