Team With Us

We’ve come to the month when we have our second round of quarterly meetings of our four teams—Organization, Design, Promotions, and Economic Vitality—and I, once again, want to invite you to join us on one or more of the teams. I outlined in a previous column what the teams do but as we’ve moved further

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Time Travel

On May 23, 1994, the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) ended its seven-year run with the two-episode “All Good Things…” Like its predecessor, the Star Trek series of the 1960s, TNG had chosen to occasionally dabble in time-travel and was now bringing the curtain down with the most complex of its temporal

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The Itch

Anticipating that many of our readers will soon be increasing their time preparing their gardens and yards for outdoor enjoyment, it seems fitting that we discuss a common annoyance—poison ivy, oak and sumac. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration tells us that 90 percent of Americans are allergic to urushiol, the oil that causes the

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Alcohol Awareness

You know I’m being cynical when I state that February is “Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket” Month. I refuse to be cynical about the fact that April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Nothing against other causes, but alcohol impacts so many people in so many ways that I’ll treat it with the seriousness it deserves.

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