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Everything works … until it doesn’t

The South Beach Diet works ... until it doesn’t. The Atkins Plan works ... until it doesn’t. Weight Watchers works … until it doesn’t. Blood type eating works … until it doesn’t. Juice fasting works ...until it doesn’t.For most people, every extreme remedy fails sooner or later. ...

More woes

When the Pennsylvania Legislature reconvenes this week for the 2017-18 session, lawmakers are facing many difficult issues.ThereĢƵ the budget with an estimated $600 million deficit that will have to be balanced in some fashion. There is also a myriad of other long-time issues that will have ...

Not good

Putting a registration sticker on your license plate was always a tricky task for most Pennsylvanians. Putting the tiny stickers on one small corner of a license plate required the sort of manual dexterity many of us lack.So, many motorists across the commonwealth were glad to hear that the ...

Microwave ovens: progress or pandemic?

Microwave “ovens” appeared for the first time when I was somewhere around 10 years, if memory serves me. They were such a source of excitement, just like cordless phones, and calculators that fit in my hand and ran on batteries. The promise of “more for less” — food served from frozen ...

January is School Board Appreciation Month

Pennsylvania public schools educate nearly two million students and 1,772 are in Central Greene School District. Each one of those students has an individual story and a different path they are taking into adulthood.The roads to success are as varied as the students, but they are not traveling ...

He did it

2016 will be remembered for years to come, mainly because of one man. That, of course, is Donald Trump, who confounded all the political analysts by winning the Republican presidential nomination and then knocking off Hillary Clinton in one of the biggest presidential election upsets in the ...