Moving From A House That Became A Home
MT. LEBANON, Pa. — It really was never supposed to be my forever home. Two years ago, I took one last look at what had been home for most of my adult life and decided to say thank you instead of goodbye. Thirty-one years earlier, I crossed the threshold of 260 with a...
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VIRGINIA: Richmond Removes Last City-Owned Confederate Statue RICHMOND, Va. — (AP) — The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue Monday, more than two years after it began to purge...
Do Americans Even Know How To Agree?
Paging through the latest survey research from More in Common, I came upon a phrase that deserves to be carved in stone: “conflict entrepreneurs.” You know them. They are the arsonists who incessantly inflame every disagreement in order to boost their own...
Official’s Decision to Reject Chapel Wall Shielding Lee Statue Upheld
Conservative voices in Lexington carry a new cry, “Build no wall,” not on the southern U.S. border, but inside the University Chapel at Washington and Lee University. The university’s effort to erect a wall inside the chapel that would shield a statue of one of its...
Joe Biden And The Price Of Gas
It doesn’t sound like much, but President Joe Biden is doing better on Main Street. His overall approval ratings have been slowly improving since August, when gas prices finally settled down and Biden won congressional approval for the Inflation Reduction Act....Obiter Dicta
Following the Eating Pets imbroglio, one would think that undecided voters would have their doubts quelled about how to vote Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Lowcountry Fossil Hunter is Sharing Ancient Finds in a Modern Way GOOSE CREEK — Waist-deep in a Charleston-area river, a pair of goggles atop his head and inflatable Read More