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Commentary

Even Trump understood vaccine need

On May 15, 2020, President Donald Trump officially announced the public-private partnership of Operation Warp Speed. Its goal was to coordinate Health and Human Services-wide efforts, toward vaccine and diagnostic development. The Food and Drug Administration announced on June 30, 2020, that ...

Taking the shock out of EV purchases

Who wants to buy a dozen doughnuts and throw 9 of them in the trash before they leave the store? That is about what you’re doing when buying gasoline for your car. Americans spend $179 on gasoline each month on average. That adds up to $2,148 a year. What makes this even worse, according ...

Don’t mess with traditions

Editor’s note: This column was written at Thanksgiving 2006. Thanksgiving weekend, for me, is the first gift of the holiday season. Now that the arrival of a grandchild has changed the family Christmas venue to Boston, Thanksgiving is at our house. It’s a much easier deal. I find ...

Changing times, climates at holidays

So, it’s the holiday season — a time of good cheer, gift giving and for overdoing it big time. As you get older and your children have families of their own you realize that Christmas is really for kids, especially those who still believe in Jolly Old Saint Nick. Back in my younger days ...

Work hasn’t slowed on lake bridge

Every day I go over the Chautauqua Lake Bridge at least two or three times. You can see that a lot is going on there, and good weather has obviously helped construction activities move along. Last week, as I entered the expressway and bridge eastbound at Stow—I followed a huge semi-truck ...

COVID comments no dose of reality

By JUDI LUTZ WOODS I am writing in response to the recent commentary “Dedicated Public Servants and Bad Medicine.” In this piece, the authors misled, misinformed, and at times presented totally false information on COVID and how the experts in our country responded. This unnecessarily ...