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Smokers beware

The famous 19th century American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once described the limits of a personĢƵ individual freedom this way:“The right to swing my fist ends where the other manĢƵ nose begins.”That nugget of philosophical wisdom still offers good guidance today, as ...

Dr. King: The Dream in the Shadows

In the summer of 1971 I was 13 and our family was living in Memphis, Tennessee. On weekends Dad made extra money servicing air conditioning units around the city. Sometimes I rode along and served as the loyal ‘gofer.’ One afternoon, while working at a motel, I was told to carry a bucket of ...

Tapeworm

Gov. Tom Corbett is trying to get some traction to avoid a looming fiscal crisis in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, his solution could wind up exacerbating the problem.The only thing that is clear is that this state can no longer dodge what Corbett refers to as the “tapeworm” in the state ...

On Memorial Day, it’s remembrance that counts

Cutbacks in the military budget and the still-recovering economy made this Memorial Day weekend a relatively subdued affair — relative, that is, to our usual end-of-school, official-start-of-summer blowout.The weekend passed without many of the usual flyovers and military bands. Sponsors of ...

Weeping through the closing credits

Nobody weeps through movie credits do they? But there I sat, in the dark, one Saturday night, on the back row of a crowded movie theater, applauding with everyone else as the closing credits began to appear. ThatĢƵ when emotions began to stir from a deep place within me that left me fighting ...

Start over

Pennsylvania finally has new legislative maps.The process took two years and was marked by comically blatant gerrymandering and an almost unheard of court defeat that threw an election into disarray.But, mercifully, itĢƵ done.The state Supreme Court earlier this month approved the Legislative ...