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Saturday night’s game between Rebels and Reds will provide onlookers with a number of anticipated match-ups and serious consequences for Wallabies caps in July. Connoisseurs of the game will be well treated. If you’re not excited by the prospect of watching Taniela Tupou and Pone Fa’amausili running hard at each other, then you’re following the […]

Ministering to the hurting flock A husband and wife were looking forward to the birth of their first child. The birth of the baby was a joyful event, but that joy evaporated quickly. A few days later, the father, mother, a few close relatives, and I were standing in a cemetery, looking at a tiny casket. Their baby had died. All were grief-stricken. What was I to say to the parents? “Trust God, everything will be all right”? I read Scripture, prayed, and stood with the parents. What would yo...

Mar 31, 1940 Mar 30, 2021 Tom Wright, age 80, passed away peacefully on March 30, 2021. He is survived by his wife Belinda, his son Tom Wright Jr (Nancy), granddaughters Amanda and Alexia, brothers JR, Charles, Jerry and Jimmy, as well as many in-laws, nieces and nephews, friends, and four beloved cats. Tom was born March 31, 1940 in east Oklahoma, mostly raised in central California. He joined the Navy at 17 and spent 20 years riding submarines and destroyers. After retiring he went back t...

Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Could Bring Aging Northeast Rail Into The Modern Era arrow The aging Hudson River train tunnel connecting Penn Station with New Jersey GOVERNOR CUOMOS OFFICE President Biden’s sweeping and costly infrastructure plan, which calls for $621 billion in transit spending alone over eight years, includes funding that could, if fully realized, modernize mass transit in the northeast for decades to come. The ambitious proposal, known as the The A...

March 17, 2021 at 1:15 PM Shares9 One year ago, I sat at a local pub and had a plate of fish and chips for lunch. It was St. Patrick’s Day, and it was the last day before all the restaurants closed in my little corner of the world. Hospitals filled up; lots of people died. We stopped doing almost everything, and struggled to find ways to do our remaining everyday tasks in a fashion that wouldn’t kill our (or anyone else’s) parents. Somewhere in there a mob of lunatics stormed the Capitol....

Press release Taoiseach’s address at Brookings Institution Ireland: Shaping the Future at Home and in the World. 15 March 2021   Thank you for your welcome John (Allen). I am very pleased to join you and the Brookings Institution for today’s event and I look forward to my conversation with Tom (Wright). For more than a year, humanity has together fought a pandemic, the likes of which none of us has seen in our lifetimes. It has had profound impact wherev...

Lawmakers in Florida, where private firm SpaceX is increasingly launching missions to outer space, are considering a bill to add criminal penalties for anyone who finds a spacecraft or parts of one and tries to keep it. The proposals would require anyone in Florida who finds a spacecraft or reasonably identifiable parts to notify law enforcement officers. They also would require police or sheriffs deputies to try to find the object’s rightful owner.  The bills would protect spacecraft, sate...

Courtesy of The Right Now The new bicoastal firm is called The Right Now and has reeled in onetime HL Group staffers Jessel Taank and Britt Joe. Veteran communications executives Eric Green and Sunny Jenkins have partnered with marketing and creative guru Wally Hasselbring to launch a new brand agency. Theyre calling the firm The Right Now and duties will be split like this: Green is overseeing entertainment, Jenkins is leading the brand division and Hasselbring is managing creative and digita...

Sustaining payments for two-year-olds for the 77th edition of the Little Brown Jug, the 52nd Jugette, the 70th Old Oaken Bucket (three-year-old open trot) and the 70th Buckette (three-year-old filly trot) are due March 15. These payments are for foals of 2019 and will be raced in 2022. Two-year-olds not nominated in the May 15, 2020 yearling payment, may be made eligible through a supplemental nomination fee of $400 due on or before the March 15, 2021 payment. This supplemental payment is in ad...

Former BWR Executives Team With Marketing Guru to Launch Brand Agency Chris Gardner The Right Now - Eric-Green - Sunny Jenkin s- Wally Hasselbring Veteran communications executives Eric Green and Sunny Jenkins have partnered with marketing and creative guru Wally Hasselbring to launch a new brand agency. They’re calling the firm The Right Now and duties will be split like this: Green is overseeing entertainment, Jenkins is leading the brand division and Hasselbring is managi...