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Jeers: The Washington County Board of Commissioners finally did the right thing Thursday when it signed off on a $500,000 grant for a womenĢƵ shelter at WashingtonĢƵ City Mission. The funding will come from the $9.2 million in the Local Share Account that the county receives from gambling ...

Sure, we’ve had our days of unseasonable warmth lately, but remember that stretch back in January when it was so cold we could have ducked into a meat locker to warm up? Football fans in Kansas City surely do. On its way to winning its second Super Bowl in a row and its third since 2020, the ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: We’re frequently told that one event or another is a once-in-a-lifetime experience when, in actuality, it is something that might well happen again in somebodyĢƵ lifetime. But the solar eclipse that is set to happen on Monday, April 8, lives up to the once-in-a-lifetime hype. As a ...

If you’re old enough and took a language arts class in junior high or high school, you probably remember learning about the particulars of a library card catalog and the finer points of the Dewey Decimal System. Even for kids who loved reading and libraries it was, letĢƵ be honest, pretty ...

Cheers & Jeers

Jeers: If you’ve never heard of Amos Miller, he is an Amish farmer from the Lancaster area whose plight has become a cause celebre for libertarians and free-market fundamentalists because he has been selling raw dairy milk to customers without a permit. The Pennsylvania Department of ...

A well-worn argument of nativists and xenophobes is that immigrants come to this country seeking only benefits, unlike “our” grandparents and great-grandparents, who found prosperity through back-breaking toil and relentless sacrifice. There is no doubt that immigrants who came to this ...