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Is lieutenant governor question too important to be bundled?

When it comes to the U.S. government, no one is drafted to be vice president. It鈥檚 an honored invitation. Presidential candidates search for someone who is a complement, providing strengths where there are weaknesses while still having a similar overall direction. Sometimes that鈥檚 a real ...

Please drop the first-elected whatever

Is it really news that Karen Bass will become the first female mayor of Los Angeles? In an era where women have already run Chicago, Phoenix, Fort Worth, Charlotte, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Boston, the gender of the new Los Angeles mayor should not have dominated the ...

Basketball!

The Uniontown Red Raiders of my youth never lost a game.That鈥檚 an exaggeration.They may have lost, but not nearly as much as they won.The Red Raider basketball teams of the mid-1950s until the mid-1960s functioned as precision-made machines 鈥 calibrated to destroy enemy high school ...

A special speakership: Nancy Pelosi

Wielding power is just as important as gaining power. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker that Republicans love to hate, is expert at both.Pelosi, 82, one of the most consequential speakers in U.S. history, has announced she is stepping away from the role, in time for a new ...

Be like the zebra and relax

In the book, 鈥淲hy Zebras Don鈥檛 Get Ulcers,鈥 Robert Sapolsky exposes us to the concepts of stress management and biology. When addressing diet and stress management, he gives the example of a young lawyer who decides that 鈥渞ed meat, fried foods, and a couple of beers per dinner ...

Decline in the number of homeless veterans is a sign of progress

鈥淥ne veteran experiencing homelessness will always be one too many,鈥 according to Denis McDonough, the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs.At the beginning of 2022, there were 33,136 homeless veterans in the United States, a report released last week found. Imagine Star Lake Amphitheater ...