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The city of Houston is activating its heat emergency plan. That means cooling centers are being opened.

Few presidents have been effective at playing Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside. Today, Biden must do both.

Killing them on confidence. if misreading a mandate is a sin in politics, pretending you have one when you dont is a moral sin. >> in march, jon meacham convened a bunch of historians at the white house who said to biden, you can be fdr, you can be lbj. lyndon baines johnson won election in 1964 with 155-seat majority in the house and 69 -- >> 155? is that more than five. >> -- and 69 democratic senators. in 1965 they passed 70 major pieces of legislation. if you go to the johnson library, there...

Warren Good arrived in Kodiak in 1972 and, like a lot of other young men in those years, went crab fishing. Kodiak was booming, deckhand jobs were easy to get and fishing was grueling but fun, if you liked hard work. And the money was good — it was not unheard of for 21-year-old deckhands with a scant year of nautical experience to make $100,000 in a single four-month king crab season. The dark side of the high times was the casualties.  In the years before the Commercial Fishing Indust...

Schenectady County to offer in-person vaccine appointment help FacebookTwitterEmail SCHENECTADY — Beginning Friday, Schenectady County will offer in-person assistance to residents who need help scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine. County library staff will help residents navigate vaccine sites starting Friday at 10 a.m. at the Hon. Karen B. Johnson Library’s McChesney Room in downtown Schenectady. At present, people who live in four zip codes — 12304, 12305, 12307 and 12308 — who are vaccine-...

Interview with Kurt Vonnegut With permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. HAMPTON SHORTS is a not-for-profit literary magazine that puts out one book each year. Copies can be obtained by contacting HAMPTON SHORTS at either HamptonShorts@Hamptons.com or at P.O. Box 1229 Watermill, N.Y. 11976 or at (631) 537-2862. The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I...

How can you hold a discussion of civil rights and not have one black Republican present?

We ignore the powerless at our own peril, says LBJ biographer Robert Caro. Robert Caro doesn’t want to renew his lease. He tells me this on a cold day in mid-October, as we stand in an elevator bay on the 22nd floor of the Fisk Building on West 57th Street. He has worked in this same office, every day, for the last 26 years. He likes his routine — he dresses to write (this day he was wearing a periwinkle v-neck sweater and a pair of pressed khakis; an informal choice for a man who usu...

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