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Monday, December 9, 2024

We can't kill our way out of our healthcare woes.

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  "The Gates of Hell," Auguste Rodin (Rodin Museum, Philadelphia)      Last Wednesday, the same day UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Tho...
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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Grindstone Elementary

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     I attended Fairwood Elementary School in Berea, Ohio. It was about a mile from my house — 1.1 miles I see now, from Google maps — and I...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Facebook bludgeons Norman Rockwell

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     Now that X has become an odious sewer, fled by the feeling, is Facebook next?      And really, it's amazing, once some sort of crit...
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Friday, December 6, 2024

'There is a fear.' Students at Sullivan give thanks in gathering political gloom

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Evelyn Levin      Just because your family flees their home doesn't mean the usual griefs of adolescence give you a pass. Years in a ref...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024

Flashback 2000: Comforts few, but it feels like home

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      There can be odd resonances in this job, echoes over the decades. This column came up twice this past week. Once in upstate New York, ...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Brandon Johnson says he didn't know of Ronnie Reese harassment allegations. He should have.

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       So Mayor Brandon Johnson, in that by-now-trademark fashion of his to deny everything he isn't taking credit for, says he first le...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Flashback 2000: What hath tech wrought? Dog photos

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Office dogs at PCB Linear in Roscoe, Illinois       I noticed this 2000 column while looking for something else, and had to share it, just b...
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