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Cheers & Jeers Jeers: The school shooting at a high school in Barrow County, Ga., last week was not the worst of the school shootings that has happened with disturbing regularity since the killings at Columbine High School in Colorado 25 years ago. Sadly, in a society awash with guns, ...

Cheers and Jeers

Cheers & Jeers Cheers: There are a lot of tough, thankless jobs out there, and one of them has to be being a flagger. Those are the folks who stand on either end of the work zones on streets and roads. Most drivers aren鈥檛 happy to see them, they have to be on their feet for long ...

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers: There are a lot of tough, thankless jobs out there, and one of them has to be being a flagger. Those are the folks who stand on either end of the work zones on streets and roads. Most drivers aren鈥檛 happy to see them, they have to be on their feet for long stretches in all kinds of ...

New COVID-19 vaccines are available, and people should get them

Anyone who attended the Summer Olympics or the Republican or Democratic conventions in recent weeks was bound to walk away with a souvenir or two, like a T-shirt, a button or a ballcap. At each of the three gatherings, some of those attending did end up walking away with a decidedly unwanted ...

Cheers and Jeers

Cheers & Jeers Cheers: It鈥檚 been almost 15 years since U.S. Rep. John Murtha died unexpectedly. In the final years of his life, the Johnstown Democrat was mostly known nationally as a critic of the United States鈥 invasion of Iraq, but for the 35 years he served in the House of ...