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<strong>Cheers:</strong> Fair season in the region officially kicked off last week with the start of the Jacktown Fair in Greene County and continued Thursday with the start of the Fayette County event. From now until the West Alexander Fair wraps up on Sept. 9, area ...

OP-ED: It’s the economy, Joe, and only the economy

Joe BidenëƵs supporters ëƵ and perhaps Biden himself ëƵ canëƵt understand why the presidential poll numbers on the economy arenëƵt better. Why is he getting so little credit for so much good news on inflation, wages, jobs and the recovery of American manufacturing? Donald TrumpëƵs idea of ...

OP-ED: It’s time to end the ‘era of the Great Distraction’

WASHINGTON - Dazzling U.S. precision weapons in the Gulf War 32 years ago encouraged a theory that was dangerous because it was soothing: The era of industrialized wars ëƵ those in which the mass manufacturing capacities of the combatant nations would be decisive ëƵ had ended. This theory has ...

OP-ED: Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right call

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki arenëƵt depicted in the movie ëƵOppenheimer,ëƵ but they haunt the film ëƵ literally.The eponymous physicist and ëƵfather of the atom bomb,ëƵ J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...

OP-ED: Tony Bennett: More than a ‘crooner’

It was in the early 1960s. I was a copy boy at NBC News and the overnight disc jockey for the local radio station called and asked if IëƵd like to go on a boat ride down the Potomac River with his guest, Tony Bennett.For several hours we cruised past some of WashingtonëƵs most famous ...

OP-ED: Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right call

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki arenëƵt depicted in the movie ëƵOppenheimer,ëƵ but they haunt the film ëƵ literally.The eponymous physicist and ëƵfather of the atom bomb,ëƵ J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped ...