A milestone is an event that means something has been achieved or changed. According to my records this is my 100th published article with the Greene County Messenger. It has been and continues to be a blessing for me and hopefully for any thoughtful readers. But that got me to thinking about ...
Days after a group of state senators took preemptive aim at so-called vaccine passports, another state lawmaker is pushing a sweeping ban on private businesses requiring immunizations.The passports 鈥� which so far exist in only a few places around the world 鈥� would serve as digital proof of ...
Thank goodness for Margaret Leech.For as Sean Wilentz, one of the country蘑菇视频 great academic historians, has written, 鈥淲hen describing history, more is at stake than the past.鈥漃ast, present, and future is more like it. How aware would we moderns be, and how significant would we view it, had ...
Anyone who is of a certain age undoubtedly remembers election nights in years like 1984 or 1996, when the presidential race was called as most people were still washing dishes after dinner and anchors on the television networks had to plead with West Coast voters to go to the polls even if the ...
Smallpox would routinely kill thousands of people across the world every year in the 18th century, from the loftiest monarchs to the most lowly peasants.So when English doctor Edward Jenner came up with a smallpox vaccine that was derived from cowpox in the early 1800s, you would think its ...
In Economics 101, the principle of supply and demand is explained. In the most simplistic terms, it comes out like this: The amount, or worth of 鈥渟omething,鈥� is determined by how much someone is willing to pay for that something. Generally, the more of something that is available, the worth ...
