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    Sunday, as you undoubtedly are aware, was Mother’s Day — the 100th anniversary of the holiday for which Anna Jarvis worked to establish in honor of her mother, who died in West Virginia in 1905.

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    In less than three years, residential customers in Pennsylvania — and that’s just about everyone except homesteaders living off the grid and members of Old Order religious sects — could be paying $1.55 billion more for electricity. Billion, with a “B.”

    As the tragedy in Myanmar, the dictatorship formerly known as Burma, is worsened by that country’s paranoid, overwhelmed and incompetent ruling military junta, people the world over want to help.

    Think back and try to recall who, during your formative years, had the biggest influence on your development and who most helped shape you into the person you would eventually become.

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    Access to health care, smoking in restaurants and taverns, education funding, transportation infrastructure, clean energy production and energy conservation, the soaring cost of electricity as price caps are lifted, mine safety, judicial appointments ...

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    What can be said about a school district that holds itself up as a model for the educational world to emulate, when such a stink is raised over a toilet and concession stand and whether to accept a $150,000 gift that would pay more than half their cost?

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    Information is lacking

    End gerrymandering

    Board agenda becomes clear

    It is disconcerting that school board members who ran for office with a commitment to fiscal responsibility have been unable to make a decision that would finalize a project already approved and supported by the community, would cost the State College Area School District a fraction of its actual value, would benefit hundreds of student athletes and their families and would honor the memory of a dedicated community volunteer.

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    Un momento, por favor

    There’s an old joke that goes like this: If you speak three languages, you’re trilingual; if you speak two languages, you’re bilingual; and if you speak one language, you’re American.

    Three days after last Tuesday’s primaries seemingly tilted the Democratic presidential nomination decisively toward Barack Obama, the surprising fact was that

    Ron Bracken walked into our newsroom in 1967 and immediately started covering high school football games.

    The last time I witnessed a woman becoming a mother, it wasn’t anything like the frilly sentiments of Mother’s Day.

    I’d like to think it was the sangria talking. But the plain truth is, when Anna said she doesn’t find this country to be especially free, it was Anna talking. Granted, her complaint is hardly new. People often grouse about the lack of freedom in the land of the free.

    Ntombi must be so hungry — and so desperate. That’s all I can think as I read the endless stream of headlines about skyrocketing food prices. Amid the talk of abstract economic factors, her memory brings home the human cost of the worldwide food shortage. I met Ntombi a few years ago when I was serving as a volunteer physician in South Africa. An HIV-positive mother of three children, she was struggling to raise her family on about a dollar a day.

    Any day now — perhaps already for some of you — our economic stimulus checks will be here.

    If the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright were white, he’d probably have his own church show on television. Maybe even his own network.

    How can the world’s hungriest schoolchildren be denied meals while the farm bill being debated in a House-Senate conference provides millions in subsidies for wealthy farmers? That’s what Congress proposes. In all fairness, it should not become law.

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    When I earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn State, I was taught to make sure that my facts were accurate before submitting a paper for publication. Unfortunately, the Centre Daily Times embraces the adage “never let the facts get in the way of a good story.”

    Over the year-end holidays, we called it the “Spirit of Giving” — a nine-day series on volunteers making a difference in Centre County.

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