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‘Red Wave’ meets a blue wall

Hardly anybody expected last Tuesday鈥檚 results.Democrats were ready to run for political cover. All of that talk about a 鈥淩ed Wave鈥 darkening their role in Congress appeared to be a foregone conclusion.Many Republicans were already chilling champagne for a joyous night of ...

Trump, Biden big losers, DeSantis big winner in 2022

One way to look at this election is as a repudiation of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.Democrats held 235 seats in the House in 2018 as Biden launched his campaign for president. To the surprise of prognosticators, they won just a bare majority, 222, on the day he was elected in 2020. As this is ...

Parties need to reform themselves

In his after-action summation of last Tuesday鈥檚 election, conservative Henry Olson concluded Republicans have to do better with suburban voters, like the ones in the neighborhoods outside of Philadelphia who backed Democrat John Fetterman in his Senate race against Mehmet Oz.Likewise, ...

Maternal care ‘deserts’ a problem in rural communities

There鈥檚 a desert on our doorstep.Of course, it鈥檚 not the desert where you would find lots of sand, snakes or cacti. What we鈥檙e talking about is a 鈥渕aternal care desert,鈥 where women of childbearing age do not have nearby access to obstetric care, birth centers, certified midwives or ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> There are precious few animal shelters or rescues in Fayette County, so it was exciting to hear that county officials plan to reform the board and again open the Fayette County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The shelter ...

Elon Musk mistook Twitter for the real world

There鈥檚 something tragically poetic about Elon Musk鈥檚 purchase of Twitter.There鈥檚 a whole subculture of lamentation about modern society that can be fairly well summed up in Peter Thiel鈥檚 roughly decade-old gripe that things like Twitter were distracting us from greatness: 鈥淲e wanted ...