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Gov. Cuomo and our broken politics

Andrew Cuomo might have become governor of New York on his own. He was already state attorney general after serving in Bill ClintonĢƵ cabinet as secretary of Commerce. And his father, Mario Cuomo, had been a two-term governor and liberal torch carrier.But as it happened, Andrew got a big push ...

Reporting the news in times of trouble

During these sad pandemic days, Americans are reading and watching more news, though their long-standing opinion of newspapers and TV news has not changed. According to the latest Gallup poll, 36 percent are favorably disposed toward the media while 48 percent are not.What continues to drive ...

This is not your granddaddy’s war

Though she was a homemaker, the late, great Rose Brady of Connellsville was no homebody. “Social distancing” was not her thing.Not when the mother of seven joined the nurse volunteer program at what in those days was Connellsville State Hospital. Not when she became a leader in Red Cross ...

Republicans on a spending spree

 Everything has changed.Life as we knew it - even last week - doesn’t exist.The rapidly growing scourge of coronavirus has reshaped our lives more quickly than anything in our nationĢƵ history.Life will go on. But at a cost paid by everybody, everywhere.We would have never thought that ...

Living life in Corona-ville

In my 20s, I received a preliminary diagnosis of diabetes. The doctor said it would take several days for test results to show for sure or not. I should go home, he said. Take it easy, he said. Don’t worry, he said.Instead of taking the doctorĢƵ advise, I fretted. Boy, did I fret. Diabetes ...

Dissecting Dr. TrumpĢƵ misdiagnosis

As I write this (on Thursday, March 12th at 10:19 AM) the number of people around the world who’ve been diagnosed with coronavirus stands at 129,590.ThatĢƵ certain to change by the time I finish writing this.One thing is for sure, the United States of America hasn’t been prepared for ...