Tag: economy
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Food prices will go up
The managing editor Shea Wilson is leaving Jan. 28. The rest of the staff was asked to write editorial columns the next couple weeks or so until we get a new managing editor. This is my first to be published. joan Middle and lower-income families can expect a greater financial pinch in the upcoming months…
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Think green! Conspicuous consumer
Long before it was fashionable to Think Green, my husband’s mother Lived Green. She didn’t just think about modern ways to “reduce, reuse, recycle and recover,” Mrs. Hershberger lived an even older adage: “Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.” Mrs. Hershberger became a family legend for her frugalities that…