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2d ago
ecently, officials from the Lake County ADAMHS Board participated in a series of meetings at the Ohio Statehouse, aimed at “advancing initiatives that promote suicide prevention ..read more
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3d ago
It was January of 2016, with just two weeks before the Iowa caucus. Then candidate Donald Trump delivered to a Christian college audience what would become the line of his political career: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters, OK?” Since making that wild and ..read more
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4d ago
When I began investing in balanced mutual funds in 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 1,190. Last Monday, despite the drop of more than 1,000 points, the DJI closed at 41,911. It’s the difference between looking at short-term vs. long-term investing. I called my financial adviser who told me not to worry about the latest ..read more
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5d ago
There’s a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets a gun. He thinks his awesome gun is great for everything: home defense, opening beer bottles, whatever. When Marge says she doesn’t want a weapon in the house, Homer replies, “A gun is not a weapon, Marge, it’s a tool. Like a butcher knife or a harpoon ..read more
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1w ago
A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people who can demonstrate how slavery and Jim Crow laws have negatively affected their lives. Talk about a high bar. The 12-member commission – yet ..read more
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1w ago
Mayor Chuck Brunello Jr. said that while establishing an ordinance, they will contact homeowners associations in the city to see how many of them allow short-term rentals and get them involved in the discussion ..read more
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1w ago
Taking decisive action against Chinese abuses and investing in American innovation, we can ensure a bright future for American solar energy and strengthen our nation’s energy independence ..read more
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1w ago
It was as predictable as a rom-com — just as surely as you knew they’d end up together, we knew how President Trump’s first speech to Congress was going to go. It was full of Trumpisms — partisan jabs, personal attacks, absurd exaggerations, outright lies and lots of self-flattery. It hit all the MAGA high notes, but ..read more
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1w ago
It was a partisan speech. It was an optimistic speech. It was a speech that laid the blame for inflation and the massive number of migrants and illegal drugs that entered the country during the previous administration at the feet of Democrats. It was an uplifting speech about the future. It was a deliberately divisive ..read more
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1w ago
I don’t say this often, but let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. During Trump’s instantly infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week, the Ukrainian president was determined to make one point above all: that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not to be trusted. Again and again, Zelenskyy noted that Putin ..read more