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The shutdown’s impact on health

…season is starting to brew; and a few deaths have been linked to Trader Joe’s precooked pasta. But there’s also plenty of good news—from Covid-19 vaccines finally getting the green…

Student Loans

…takes place. What is also interesting and which many may not be aware of . . . Joe Biden led the charge against student loan forgiveness as a Senator. Maybe…

Celebration of Spring

…my 74th birthday. I was born into a world dominated by two other monsters, Joe McCarthy and Joe Stalin, and they’ve long been discredited and gone. When I was exactly…

Who Signed the Most?

…381 from 1981 to 1989. Single-term President Joe Biden signed 160 executive orders from 2021 to 2025, which is fewer than other recent presidents. How many executive orders has each…

Sixty-Eight Years Ago This Week

…already knew some of it–the part about the charge that the iconic Joe Rosenthal photo of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, shot for the Associated Press but…