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Children in Rochester, New York, had just been let out of school for the summer when the first significant heat wave arrived in late June 2021. For five days temperatures hovered in the high 80s and low 90s, combining with high humidity to make the first week of summer a sweltering one.

Thousands of people are challenging the vaccine mandates. For them the “get shot or get fired” ultimatum is a bridge too far. Southwest Airlines recently discovered that such pressure isn’t working when they had to cancel a lot of flights because they didn’t have staff. Locations with Lockdown Lefty Lunatics in charge are losing people. Over a thousand people a day are moving to the Free State of Florida where mandates are strongly discouraged. But federal courts are ruling in favor of mandates right and left. Why?

If you have not yet voted in the Special Election for the City Council seat in District 4 (Males vs. Searl), you may want some facts before casting your essential vote. We have four council seats at this time and a 5th council member will change the balance of power.

Many of you have only read about the depression of the '30s and how it affected the working class. It was the era of "the assembly line."

Many years ago, my sweet daughter Susanne and my hubby Bob got their heads together and made a video for one of Bob’s Sunday sermons. It was called, “Boiled Alive.” And yes, they actually boiled a frog at our kitchen stove - pretend! It’s amazing what you can do when you edit a video these days. The frog was not boiled, as it appeared to be - but you didn’t know that until the out-take where it showed Bob with frog in hand headed back to the pet store. Nevertheless, we got a ton of nasty emails slamming us for boiling Mr. Green Frog in the Beckett kitchen. (This video can still be viewed on youtube.com.)