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NO FORTUNE COOKIE?

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Their marketing, advertising, and promotions claim the cookies are not only delicious but incredibly lucky. The last time I ordered Chinese was this week. I requested fortune cookies,
received a small plastic bag filled with air, containing neither a cookie nor a fortune.

ANGRY 😡

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Aristotle was quoted as saying that anger isnot bad, but an emotion that for the "right reason," can be virtuous

He defined it as a painful desire for revenge in response to a perceived, undeserved slight. The key to virtuous anger is moderation, feeling it at the right time, for the right reasons, and in the right amount. Don’t Boo, VOTE

GIT UNKER WIT

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The dual form still exists in some languages, such as Arabic. But why did such a poetic pronoun go extinct in English? It seems especially strange when popular culture still celebrates that sense of a special two-ness today and the prevalence of "just the two of us" pervades song and literature.

EXPENSE$

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Frustration with higher prices pushed consumer sentiment to a historic low, below anything recorded during the Great Recession or the Covid pandemic.

LA NIÑA - EL NIÑO

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La Niña has finally left, so prepare for El Niño ay Dios mio!

UNDER OATH?

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Melania Trump has called for a public hearing for survivors, but a group of those affected say they have ‘done their part’ and reiterate calls for others to be questioned. Will Melania testify under oath?

NOT GOING BACK

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As America’s favorite pastime begins, the baseball season has a famous phrase, one, two three strike you’re out.
The favorable national environment and a potential #GOP polling collapse with #Latino voters could again make the #SunshineState competitive in the 2026 midterm elections. And not only in Florida.

REGISTER TO VOTE

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This is the most consequential election in American history.
You have the right to vote. If anyone tries to stop you, call or text the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-687-8683

PRESS & PUSH BACK

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Let's be precise. Not poetic. We are not opinion. We are not a rumor. We are not the opposition party, the deep state, or a monolith with an agenda. We are reporters. We show up. We verify. We publish. Then we do it again.
The phrase "enemy of the people" has a history. It was used in Stalin's Soviet Union to justify the imprisonment and execution of those who told inconvenient truths. It was used under Mao, Hitler, Castro, etc. It has never, in any iteration, belonged to a functioning democracy. That is not an opinion. It is the historical record. You are the voice of local news: growing our readership grows civic debate and community problem solving.