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Enjoy The Upcoming Baseball Season

In a couple of weeks, the smell of hotdogs will be wafting slowly past our noses, and we’ll be dressed in our mukluks, fur-lined gloves, and Inuit parkas, excited for the sounds of the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the chattering of teeth, and the call of “play” from the ...

Choosing Paper Or Plastic

The recent decision by New York State to prohibit single-use plastic bags from retail stores makes it an ideal time to reexamine one of my favorite environmental quandaries. Plastic grocery bags were developed as a substitute for paper bags in the late 1970s. It was promoted as a way to save ...

Making The Right Preparations

The news is aflutter with updates of this new virus, COVID-19. I can’t turn on the TV or look at my phone without seeing some new update on how many cases there are or where the virus has spread to. The constant updates are driving anxiety up in our country and across the world, so much so ...

Making Sense Of The Coronavirus

Are you concerned about the coronavirus? I am certainly taking it seriously, but hope we’re not being swayed by overreaction. For example, news like this concerns me: 38% of American beer drinkers surveyed last week said they wouldn’t buy Corona beer “under any circumstances” at ...

Gov’t Outlaws Freelance Work

Freelance jobs are “feudalism,” says California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez. She persuaded California’s legislature to pass a new law reclassifying freelance workers as employees. That means many people who hire them must now give them benefits like overtime, unemployment insurance, ...

Threatening High Court Justices Is Never OK

Congress must censure Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for threatening two Supreme Court justices outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. This should be wholly bipartisan and utterly uncontroversial. No American, no less a high-ranking member of Congress like Schumer, ...