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Jane Olmstead

Birthday parade, or Medicaid?

NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will cost us, the taxpayers, as much as $45 million.

Like a spoiled child, Trump runs home whenever possible to escape the political heat of Washington to indulge in golf. We foot that bill, too. As of February, or one month into his presidency, one estimate of his trips to Mar-a-Lago was over $10.7 million (more than half a billion dollars if this continues for four years).

He knows he can't legally jail people without a trial so he hustles suspects, in the middle of the night, to a prison in El Salvador. That is costing you and me another $6 million per year, or multiplied by four years of his presidency, $24 million.

He just accepted a plane from Qatar. He claims it's free, but our Air Force will have to completely overhaul it before it's secure enough for the president. We'll pay for that with our tax dollars as well.

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When opportunity meets preparation

What new high school graduates should consider about the nature of luck

Every day each of us has a little bit of luck. Some is bad, but most of it is good. Many people believe that luck is random. But by following a simple, well-known formula, I believe that we can all make our own luck. The formula is this: “Luck...

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