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Farm Aid 40 Live Stream Official Webcast

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Van Jones shows the message Charlie Kirk sent him one day before he was killed

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Let’s forge a safer, more tolerant nation together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgKofd1vG8 Enough is enough. The threats, the hate,...

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Getting your COVID-19 booster should be simple.

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One Lancaster

The controversy over Lancaster High School’s anachronistic, racist “Redskins” mascot was resolved by unanimous vote of that district’s school board. There was some outcry and protestation, and two of the most vocal opponents of the change were elected to the school board last week. The students, for their part, are in the process of selecting a new mascot via plebiscite. It’s

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Lancaster at a Crossroads

Who better to expound on whether “Redskins” is offensive to American Indians than two blonde non-Indians? The Buffalo News reports that Brenda Christopher and Kelly Depczynski are running for the Lancaster school board, and sort-of-possibly-but-maybe-not-but-really-yes advocating for the voters to fail the Lancaster school budget and a capital bond proposal, all to the detriment of the community and her students.

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Donn Esmonde’s School Vandals

When you wage war on the public schools, you’re attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You’re not a conservative, you’re a vandal. – Garrison Keillor Maybe Donn Esmonde is too busy with his new hobby of trying to be a retiree version of Bernice Radle, rehabbing dilapidated investment properties on the West Side of Buffalo, but his opinions and pronouncements