CHICAGO 鈥� Carl Sandburg鈥檚 hog butcher, wheat stacker, city of the big shoulders 鈥� was once America鈥檚 candy capital, catering to the nation鈥檚 sweet tooth. Today it is less so because the federal government interferes with candy鈥檚 most important ingredient.With Halloween on the ...
I had a tough argument with a friend who was incensed that our local police had placed traffic cameras at major intersections. He felt that the authorities were running surveillance on innocent citizens. I countered that if police officers sitting in their cars observed drivers going through ...
America blew it.I generally support special prosecutor Jack Smith鈥檚 indictments of Donald Trump. The classified documents case is open-and-shut, as far as I can tell. As for the charges dealing with the former president鈥檚 attempt to steal the election, they are a heavier lift as a strictly ...
<strong>Jeers:</strong> Health outcomes tend to be worse in rural communities than in urban areas, and certainly part of the reason for this is spotty access to health care services. A March of Dimes report last year identified Greene County as one of six counties in ...
One of Pennsylvania鈥檚 recent gun-related tragedies occurred in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia.A 14-year-old boy with severe developmental disabilities found an unsecured handgun in his grandmother鈥檚 bedroom and accidentally shot his cousin, a 2-year-old girl, in the head. The ...
Let鈥檚 hear it for Ken.Yes, I鈥檓 talking about the Mattel doll or, as my son called him in his daycare days, 鈥淏arbie鈥檚 action figure.鈥滿y wife and I saw Greta Gerwig鈥檚 鈥淏arbie鈥� in the theater a few nights ago, seeking something therapeutically light after seeing 鈥淥ppenheimer,鈥� ...
