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Bryce Miller: Chance meeting in unlikely place leads to Farmers Insurance Open history
SAN DIEGO — The path to gender-busting history for the Century Club, the San Diego group behind the Farmers Insurance Open, began … well … at a portable toilet. That's where local attorney Barbara Savaglio, standing in line during the 1986 tournament, noticed a man draped in the organization's distinct green jacket. She inquired about the meaning of the fairway-strolling fashion statement at the hand-washing station. "Then I asked, 'How many female members do you have?' " Savaglio said of the organization formed in 1961. "When he said none, I told him, 'Mark my words. One day, I'm going to be ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Editorial: Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is no dummy. He's true to himself, but lying about the law
In the weeks since Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pumped his fist in solidarity with a seditious mob, we do have to admit that he has remained consistent. He’s stayed true to the radical impulses that he showed even as a kid columnist for his hometown paper in Lexington, Missouri, where he defended those drawn to conspiracy theories decades before fueling them himself. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, in which 168 people died, 15-year-old Hawley cautioned readers that not all of Timothy McVeigh’s fellow anti-government militia members should be “stereotyped” as potential domestic terrorists. D...
The Kansas City Star
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ShopRite pharmacies shut: 'We thought we would be getting COVID vaccines here. And they told us we were all fired.'
Pharmacies in 62 ShopRite stores from Connecticut to Maryland are closing over the next month and rerouting customers to nearby CVS pharmacies as the drugstore business continues to consolidate into a few giant chains. ShopRite owner Wakefern Foods Corp., based in Woodbridge Township, N.J., has sold its customer lists to the Rhode Island-based CVS Pharmacy drugstore chain and reassigned them to CVS locations. For example, patients who picked up prescriptions from the ShopRite at 52nd and Parkside in West Philadelphia are being sent to the CVS at 49th and Market Streets, nearly two miles away. ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Mary Schmich: A new affliction in the pandemic: Vaccine envy
I have vaccine envy. There. I’ve confessed it. The thought of getting a COVID-19 vaccine makes me impatient, greedy, needy. I yearn for a vaccine the way some people want a mansion or a Tesla or Michelle Obama’s dresses. A friend in California emailed a couple of days ago to say she was likely to get her first dose of the vaccine on Monday. “You?” she added. Immediately, a little green devil popped up on my shoulder to whisper in my ear, “Yeah, what about you? Don’t you deserve a vaccine?” Facebook, too, is lively with people announcing they just got their first shot. When my sister-in-law in ...
Chicago Tribune
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News briefs
Biden looks to speed up putting Tubman on $20 Bill, Psaki says WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department will resume Obama-era plans to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and President Joe Biden wants to accelerate the process, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. U.S. money should “reflect the history and diversity of our country and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,” she said at a briefing for reporters. “We’re exploring ways to speed up that effort.” Tubman, a former slave who helped others to freedom, was to become the first ...
Tribune News Service
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Hank Aaron cause of death determined
Hank Aaron died of natural causes, according to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office. Aaron, the Braves legend and baseball’s one-time home run king, died on Friday at the age of 86. According to the Braves, he died peacefully in his sleep. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday at Truist Park and a funeral service will be held Wednesday at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta. Both services begin at 1 p.m. and will be private. They will be broadcast by several outlets. In lieu of flowers, the Aaron family would like donations made to his Chasing the Dream Foundation: Hank Aaron Cha...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Jay Ambrose: The progressive disunity project
Donald Trump’s narcissistic, scatterbrained, sometimes cataclysmic moral ineptitude hurt America in two different ways, first by his own attacks on what is so precious to our way of life and next by inspiring his political enemies to join the party. They had at him unsparingly while he was in office, and, now that he is more or less gone, they are going after his supporters as the worst trash ever seen, people due next to no rights and whose lives should be ruined. The incendiaries simultaneously attack free speech and other high principles. The new president, Joe Biden, recommended unity thro...
Tribune News Service
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John M. Crisp: Trump voters, please give Biden a chance to govern
An anecdote: On Jan. 19, a friend was standing in a short line at the post office in his Midwestern city. In due course he reached the window, conducted his business and turned to leave. A patron near the end of the line caught his eye and grumbled, “This line’s gonna be a lot longer once Biden gets in.” The next day Biden got in. This incident approaches parody, but only by a little. After all, Joe Biden was accused of closet communism. Such outsized hyperbole ensures that many committed Trump voters will resist Biden’s administration from the start. But the anecdote serves to remind us of tw...
Tribune News Service
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Commentary: Still not sure COVID-19 is horrifying? I imagine what it would have been like for my ill parents to die alone
My father did not die of COVID-19. Neither did my mother. They passed from this world nine months apart, he from pulmonary fibrosis in 2018 and she from congestive heart failure in 2019. They were both 75 years old. They were nursing home residents in northwest Indiana. My mother was in long-term care, and my sisters and I placed our father in the same facility to receive hospice care so they could see each other while his terminal illness progressed. They were married for 49 years: My father was loquacious but wounded by life and a challenge to love; my mother, a world-class hugger, was humbl...
Chicago Tribune
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Paul Sullivan: During his lifetime, Hank Aaron overcame virulent racism few others have experienced. Cubs great Billy Williams witnessed it firsthand.
CHICAGO — We all remember exactly where we were on the night of April 8, 1974: parked in front of our TVs waiting on Hank Aaron to make history. The wait didn’t last too long. After walking on five pitches in the second inning, Aaron took the first delivery from Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Al Downing in the fourth and deposited it into the Atlanta Braves’ bullpen behind the left-field fence for his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth as the all-time home run king. He did it before a packed house of 53,766 in Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, and with a national television audience glued ...
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