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Baseball: national pastime or a sport gone bad?

As for saving the national pastime from tedium, hereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the bottom line: ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ going to be tough.Tough because there are considerable differences between baseball today and when it rode atop American sports. As for some of those differences, we might consider the performance of Yankee great ...

Bipartisanship needed to fight gun violence

If a person is intent on killing someone and doesn’t have a gun, he or she will find some other means for committing the crime.That must be kept in mind as the Pennsylvania General Assembly, amid its 2022-23 budget-preparation work currently underway, considers how to allocate funds most ...

Turnpike strives for transparency

For decades, the Pennsylvania Turnpike has been a cornerstone of our economy that now provides safe travel to 500,000 customers daily. Over time, our roadway evolved to reflect customers’ needs and those of our commonwealth. When consumers were turning to electronic payments, we implemented ...

The ‘managing anxiety’ defense

<em>EditorÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ note: Diane Dimond is on sabbatical. The following column was published in 2020.</em>LetÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ see a show of hands. Who, among readers of this column, has experienced some anxiety in their lives? Ahhh, as I suspected, there are lots of hands in the air. ...

Avian fl precautions protect Pa. economy

There is a pretty good chance that a chicken or egg eaten somewhere in the U.S. came from Pennsylvania.The Keystone State is the fourth largest producer of poultry in America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture puts the number of chickens alone at 201 million, and that doesn’t count other ...

Free speech?

When Albert Einstein unveiled his formula, E=mc2, did he ever think it would lead to the doomsdayers among us waiting nervously to see if Vladimir Putin would be putting his finger on the button ensuring mutual destruction of the world?Einstein was not just a violin playing physicist. He was a ...