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5 days ago | pagosadailypost.com | Carole Howard

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5 days ago | pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon

Capabilities that were once the province of only a handful of medical specialists can now be in everyone’s hands, promising care that’s more informed, accessible and responsive to patient needs…— from an op-ed by Michael Botta in The Washington Post, April 22, 2025. Michael Botta, co-founder and president of Sesame, a health-care marketplace, thinks health-care-oriented AI can save lives. For half the price. That would make American health care roughly as affordable as in Europe.

6 days ago | pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon

I would buy American, if I could. I would gladly buy American-made shoes, and American-made TV sets, and American-made frying pans. If such things existed. I would gladly buy ballpoint pens made in America, and electric blankets, and flower pots… if American workers still made those things. But my country stopped making those products long ago. Sure, we still produce certain commodities, in large quantities. Bacon, for one. Soybeans, and corn. Kit Kat bars, and Snickers.

1 week ago | pagosadailypost.com | Charles Marohn

This op-ed by Chuck Marohn first appeared on StrongTowns.org on April 17, 2025. Last weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at the New Jersey Bike & Walk Summit — a packed room filled with passionate local leaders, planners, engineers, and advocates working to make their places safer and more human. Before I started, I entirely scrapped the talk I had prepared. The moment demanded something different. There’s a lot of fear right now. I could read it clearly in the room.

1 week ago | pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon

Reportedly, Colorado may soon become the first state to require warning labels on gas pumps. The warning labels are at the core of House Bill 25-1277, which narrowly passed the Colorado House of Representatives on April 2 and was scheduled to be heard in the Senate’s Transportation & Energy Committee. We can wonder how effective warning labels are. In general. About six months before I was born back in 1964, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service — Luther L.