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1 week ago | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
Find these countries on a map - Canada, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Syria - then tell me if they are allies of the United States. This friend-or-foe business is elastic, historically, but the cracks in the relationships are evident, and chaos these days is a given. I once worked in an environment like that, a backwater in General Motors' manufacturing system.
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3 weeks ago | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
I do not know what month it is. Mothers got a day last weekend and football season opens on Sept. 4 — Dallas and Philadelphia on NBC, a Thursday night classic even though it hasn’t been played yet and everyone who gets an NBC paycheck is excited — but somehow Black History Month, Woman’s History Month and Asian and Pacific Islands History Month blew past me. Also, dates — or is it months? – recognizing Hindu and Muslim contributions to America.
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1 month ago | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
The various models of electric cars and one weird-looking pickup truck manufactured by Tesla Inc. are excellent, if a little overpriced. Sales are down lately, though, but it has nothing to do with the quality of the cars, the dealer network or even the competition.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
Newspapers publish editorial columns in print and online, such as the one you’re reading now. The better papers often offer a place, online, for readers to offer comments, and those comments are sometimes trailed by the writer of the column, who responds to them. Those comments tend to be the source of what the columnist did not offer in his or her writing. Those comments by readers tend to be fascinating.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
theadanews.com | Ed Adamczyk
We each have our own idea of nostalgia, those happy memories unfiltered by whatever was going wrong and who was complaining about it. Regrettably, a habit I developed in childhood, which has given me immeasurable pleasure and advantage, seems to be going out the window — I speak of the act of reading.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
mcalesternews.com | Ed Adamczyk
We each have our own idea of nostalgia, those happy memories unfiltered by whatever was going wrong and who was complaining about it. Regrettably, a habit I developed in childhood, which has given me immeasurable pleasure and advantage, seems to be going out the window — I speak of the act of reading.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
fayettetribune.com | Ed Adamczyk
It just shows you how desensitized we have become: A vice presidential debate (last) week featuring just a few lies, just a few coverings up of prior errors, just two gentlemen candidates — one a slick and polished debater, the other a folksy, straight-shooting debater — batting around policy for about two hours, an event actually approaching normal, and when it was over, we acknowledged little light but also little heat, no fireworks, no messes for either party to clean up, and it was...
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
Ah, hearkening back to yesteryear, and memories of a simpler time, when we wore masks to keep from inhaling a pandemic. Back when Congressional inaction over funding the government was a big deal and a page-one news story. We watched a sideways ship in the Suez Canal clog the world economy and heard Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion of beer. I thought the versatile George Santos would have his own talk show by now. Whatever happened to him?
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
Oh, let’s see here. Gunfire at “street parties.” California’s on fire. Houston’s underwater. Ukrainian hospitals are bombed. The Yankees are struggling. Seems like all of that qualifies as a typical summer these days, except that Donald Trump has temporarily reduced the velocity of his mouth but, hey, if your opponent is digging a hole for himself, you don’t take away his shovel, right? My personal travail concerns the heat and humidity, and I am impressed by how those not me are handling it.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
lockportjournal.com | Ed Adamczyk
You may have missed it but in a month of lowest-common-denominator political maneuvers, lawsuits stalling pretty much everything and the exposition of the Boston Celtics as one of basketball’s best ever, the New York State Board of Regents announced plans to overhaul its criteria to obtain a high school diploma. Ah, high school.
