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Big Google Is Watching Your Children

Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to “online learning.” Big Google is ...

Experts, Politicians Need Strong Dose Of Humility

With COVID-19 inducing so much turmoil here and around the world, I again refer to one of the most profound concepts for understanding political and economic manipulations, as I have multiple times in the past, the pretense of knowledge. Even though it might leave a great deal unknown and ...

Country Living Is A Good Thing

Next to Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, I would rate Merle Haggard as one of the most gifted country/western singers of our generation. He sang from the heart. I was saddened when he died a few years back, but his music lives on. In his song “Big City,” he spins a tale of getting ...

Stage Is Set For Work On The Lake

By Vince Horrigan As the Chautauqua Lake and Watershed Management Alliance prepares to enter our sixth year prioritizing projects, securing funding, and allocating resources for our 26 member agencies, there is much to reflect upon and much to be excited about moving forward. Prioritizing ...

Bankruptcy For States Hurts, But May Help Workers

In a recent radio interview, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested that instead of federal bailouts to help fund states’ employee pensions — which are even more stressed than usual due to the economic damage wrought by COVID-19 — Congress should give states the option of ...

Stay-At-Homers Care So Much, It Hurts — Others

Almost by the minute, data and research are pouring in confirming that government — at the local, state, and federal levels — has disastrously overreacted to the coronavirus. Let us count the ways: ¯ A cavernous part of those infected with the virus do not experience any symptoms. ¯ ...