The autumn leaves are expected to be extra vibrant this year in Pennsylvania, though they are changing colors a week later than is normal. That’s fitting. Very few things are “normal” this year. According to Merriam-Webster, “autumn” is “the season between summer and winter comprising in the northern hemisphere usually the months of September, October, […]

It was about midnight when the lights went out in Brussels. It happened during a 1965 meeting of the foreign ministers of the six member countries of the European Community, the forerunner of the EU. I was the only American present, serving as an “official spokesman” for the international staff. That night, I could not […]

There is a segment of our population that believes, or at least wants to be persuaded, that the CDC, the FDA, Anthony Fauci, Nirav Shah and many other highly trained and honest health professionals are wrong about the necessity of wearing masks and getting vaccinated against COVID. Yet when these very same people get infected […]

When I made the decision to close our medical clinic to in-person visits and temporarily suspend operations in our dental clinic in March 2020, I never thought that, 18 months later, COVID-19 would still be the major public health threat that it is. I would have never believed that over 1,600 people would be diagnosed […]

By all accounts, Maine’s redistricting process this year – ratified by the Legislature on Wednesday – was civil, and, at least in public, harmonious. With a tight deadline, the 15-member Reapportionment Commission reached unanimous agreement on the four “maps” – the two Congressional districts, House, Senate and county commissioner districts. That had something to do […]