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I have been sitting down to write these columns since 1978. For 44 years I have stared at a piece of blank paper or a blank computer screen and wondered what morsels of wit and wisdom I would pass on …
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Kathy Werner
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7/1/22
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Yahoo West Coast Correspondent Andrew Romano says a poll shows most Americans say, “two gun measures could stop mass shootings but the senate apparently isn’t considering them.”
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Three per 1,000. That’s how many children in America enter foster care every year, a figure that comes from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Twenty-eight thousand five hundred twenty-four. …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/28/22
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I’m beginning to think that we are living in a brand-new world. We are constantly having to adjust our ideas of what “normal” is.
Remember when you used to steer clear of …
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Kathy Werner
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6/24/22
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It’s that time of year for senior photos, and that tends to mean a few things.
First, of course, it means you’ll find me, plus a high school senior, my lighting assistant and maybe a …
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Jeanne Sager
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6/21/22
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Fred Singer was a scientist, professor and a writer of hundreds of research papers and contributed articles to the press including essays in The Washington Post.
Singer died at the age of …
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This past Saturday we had the sad task of saying goodbye to Gracie, our sweet little pup who has been with us for the past 12 years.
During her all-too-short time on this earthly plane, Gracie had …
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Kathy Werner
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6/17/22
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Aurora by David Koepp (Harper) . The disaster that sets off this thriller doesn’t go away. The whole world is electrically and electronically just dead; think what would go not just dark, but …
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by George Ernsberger
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6/17/22
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Christoper F. Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor with City Journal writes about the Walt Disney Company, “a company founded 99 years ago and associated …
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Ed Townsend
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6/14/22
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I was already four years back into my archives, combing for photos of tractor parades from the past few years when it hit me. This year’s parade would mark 20 years of covering the Callicoon …
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6/14/22
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I hope that many have heard Matthew McConaughey’s speech on Tuesday at the White House. His powerful words brought the attention of the nation once again to the heinous toll that gun …
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Kathy Werner
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6/10/22
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Sometimes I think I have seen it all in this column writing business.
I even remember back in the 1980s when I was a well-known journalist how I covered sports and entered schools with no …
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Ed Townsend
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6/7/22
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