Child care got expensive— more than $13,000 per child, per year. So many people want government to pay for it. My state just agreed. New York will fund free child care. Yay! But wait ... what government does isn't free. Taxpayers pay. And taxpayers pay more because "government rules ...
Celebrating Community Impact and Gratitude To the Editor, The Fairmont Community Hospital Foundation invites members of our community to join us for an evening dedicated to gratitude, connection, and the impact of generosity. Our Annual Meeting, An Evening of Gratitude & Community Impact, will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Best Western in Fairmont. The evening will begin with a social hour at 5:30 p.m., followed by the annual meeting at 6:00 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. This special event is an opportunity to recognize and thank the donors and partners who make our ...
There's a famous scene in the movie "The Graduate" in which a young Dustin Hoffman receives this one-word bit of career advice from a businessman: "plastics." He wasn't talking about credit cards, but he might as well have been. Back in the 1960s only about half of Americans had credit ...
The importance of the brain cannot be overstated. Without it, we would just be lumps of flesh. Damage it, and we malfunction. It determines everything we do, keeps us alive by monitoring and running our body, stores our memories, triggers our emotions, allows us to speak, determines how smart ...
Speaking at a Jan. 6 retreat for House Republicans, Trump stated, "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be — I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached." This was before Trump's agents murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti in ...
President Trump and Pope Leo are in a war of words right now— when they should be allies, not enemies. Both want peace, but the president intends to get it by winning a war against Iran, while the pope thinks the war isn't worth fighting. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran ...
