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Dear Annie: Aunt won’t dish on her dishes

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Dear Annie: My aunt has the strangest quality. I see her at every holiday and family party, and she always brings something delicious made from scratch. For my cousin’s birthday, it was a key lime pie that disappeared within minutes. It was unreal. On several occasions, I’ve asked her for the recipe. I like to cook, and she clearly has good ones. But every time, she says something like, “Oh, no, this one’s a secret!” It’s happened with the key lime pie, roasted brussels sprouts, tortellini soup and a pasta casserole. Four times, I’ve asked; four times, I’ve been turned ...

Let the word go forth: The Trump about Trump

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Donald Trump is not just a bad president. “King” is too good a word for the likes of him. What Trump truly is shall be written in the end. Andrew Johnson was the worst president we’ve had until now. A Southerner who was Abraham Lincoln’s vice president, he took office in 1865 when the Civil War president was murdered by a Confederate sympathizer. Lincoln’s worst mistake, Johnson restored Confederate leaders and generals back to power and undermined the meaning of the war. For that, the hated, bitter and racist Johnson was impeached and almost removed from office in ...

Diagnosis of OPMD is likely in man with a family history of it

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DEAR DR. ROACH: Many of my dad’s side of the family — from my grandmother to my uncles and aunts, as well as their kids — have had oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). Most people started having symptoms around age 65, and I’m 64. My dad had a bad heart, got the eyelid surgery for OPMD and used a walker since his late 60s. I didn’t get the test yet; however, I do choke often, and my eyelids do droop a little. What are your thoughts on taking testosterone to offset the muscle girdling? I had a radical prostatectomy in 2012 and have had a PSA of 0 ng/mL since. I was on ...

Three easy ways to reduce pain at the pump

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I’ve always argued that the easiest way for families to gauge the health of the economy is to check the daily gas price. Drivers see the 50-foot-high signs in every community in America. They stare us right in the face. I call it the affordability index. In recent weeks, gas prices have hit $4.50 a gallon nationally, and truckers are paying well over $6 a gallon. That’s a bad look with a month to go before midterm elections across the country. These high prices have put consumers in a bad mood. It’s worth mentioning that the average gas price while Donald Trump has been ...

How 1,800 local tradespeople are powering Pa.’s ultimate energy and data innovation campus

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HOMER CITY, Pa. — Eighteen months ago, Shawn Steffee stood in a field in Indiana County and watched the smokestacks of Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant fold into a cloud of dust, then told anyone who would listen that the wreckage was not a funeral. “This isn’t the end, this is the beginning,” said the business agent for Boilermakers Local 154. That prediction is unfolding. Homer City Generation announced earlier this month that more than 1,800 direct-hire tradespeople and skilled contractors are currently working at the site of the largest natural ...

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Arthur Keller Beavertown With today’s political atmosphere and the rhetoric in the papers, it is hard to know what to believe. But rest assured it is not as bad as you think. At 82 years of age, I have lived through many crises like the Polio Epidemic, the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, several president assassination attempts (some successful), can’t remember a time without a war going on somewhere, Y2K crisis and recently Climate Crisis predicting the polar ice cap completely ice-free in 2014 with our coastal cities flooded and the world destroyed which did not happen. I ...