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Opinion

Big ugly bill

Letters to the editor

To the editor: Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed the House by one vote: 215-214. The budget cuts in this bill will reduce the number of jobs, bring lower income to many of us and produce higher prices for stuff, if it’s even still on the shelves. It also cuts health care to ...

Lament for the end of the penny

Letters to the editor

To the editor: This poem was inspired by the announcements that the U.S. Treasury will be discontinuing the production of new pennies. If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do And if you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you The ha’penny long gone, and now the ...

What is intoeing and how do we fix it?

Columns

Parents have been asking me to step to it and provide some information on intoeing in their infants and toddlers. Let me put my best foot forward about this topic. Definition and causes Intoeing is a condition in which the feet curve inward instead of pointing straight ahead. It can ...

The Elk’s Club’s finest hour

Columns

I’ve been in a bunch of casinos, literally from Las Vegas to Kathmandu, and I haven’t lost a nickel in any of them. Know why? I don’t gamble. My reason be summed up by an old adage I heard as a callow youth. It was: If you don’t wanna lose in Las Vegas, as soon as ...

Conversations with AI

Columns

What does it mean to talk directly to artificial intelligence? Not just use it, but question it, give it personhood and ask it to reflect on its own experience? Rather than discussing the pros or cons of AI, here we dive into a conversation with the system itself and ask the questions ...