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The powerless feeling that there is nothing we can do is pervasive in our modern society: a gnawing terror that nobody hears our needs, or perhaps that the people in positions of power are choosing to ignore us. Meanwhile, the world around us keeps moving forward, as it has ever done and, presumably, ever shall. Tendencies become patterns. Patterns become habit. Habits become...“well, that’s just the way it is.” Sometimes, though, we are afforded an opportunity to make ourselves be heard. Those who are highly engaged with local government know some of those opportunities. ...

D-dimer blood test causes confusion in 83-year-old male

Columns

DEAR DR. ROACH: What are D-dimers? Are they something I should be concerned about? I am an 83-year-old male with the usual problems that men my age have, such as an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. With medication and monitoring by my doctors, all of these conditions are under control. I also exercise and play golf every week. This past August, I started to experience an extremely intense pain behind my left knee. It was in one small area and would come and go. After several hours, I went to our emergency room, where they did a sonogram that did not show ...

Voter fraud without perpetrators

Letters to the editor

Tim Mannello Williamsport Republican lawmakers say voters should show photo ID because, they claim, voter impersonation is rampant. But every credible study—including those commissioned by Republicans themselves—shows the opposite: voter impersonation is virtually nonexistent. When confronted with the evidence, they simply repeat the claim anyway. The only thing that’s widespread is the myth. kept alive not by facts, but by constant repetition. That misconception didn’t appear out of nowhere. It persists largely because Republican leaders keep repeating the claim until, to ...

Duped

Letters to the editor

Sam Stea Cogan Station Friends: Which is more likely when it comes down to our current administration? Is it that the nation’s plunging GDP, rising unemployment, skyrocketing inflation and soaring gas prices, the exploding national debt, rising unaffordability, widening income gap and erosional of the middle class, declining geopolitical influence, and now war — are all parts of some genius plan to rain down prosperity on our citizenry; or, that we have been duped by a con man who hasn’t a clue how to run anything beyond self-promotion and self-interest? Folks out ...

Dear Annie: When a friend’s ‘help’ feels like a put-down

Columns

Dear Annie: I’m having a problem that feels small, but it’s starting to make me dread seeing someone I care about. One of my closest friends has gotten into the habit of “correcting” me in public. If I tell a story, she interrupts to adjust a detail. If I mention a restaurant, she jumps in with the exact neighborhood and the chef’s name. If I pronounce a word slightly wrong, she repeats it back the right way with a smile that’s supposed to be playful. At first, I brushed it off. She’s smart and she has always been a little particular. But lately, it feels constant, and ...

No low too low: A president gloats about a patriot’s passing

Columns

In 1968, Robert Mueller, poised to graduate from Princeton University, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, hoping to serve his country in the Vietnam War, which was then raging. It was the year that American troops would sustain their peak number of combat deaths, nearly 17,000. A son of privilege, a star athlete, Mueller was inspired by a fellow student who had died for his country. “We lost a very good friend of mine, a Marine in Vietnam, who was a year ahead of me at Princeton,” Mueller recalled decades later, asking about how he came to enlist in Vietnam. “There were a number ...