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Dot’s Reading Room: International Women’s Day

by Dorothy Bergin
March 8, 2023
1 min read

Dot looks at some key statistics about women, who make up more than one-half of our population.…

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Dot’s Reading Room – February 2023

by Dorothy Bergin
February 24, 2023
3 mins read

For the February Reading Room, Dot focuses on "a truly remarkable book" - “Half American: the Epic Story of African Americans…

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Dot’s Reading Room – What if the Jan. 6 attack had succeeded?

by Dorothy Bergin
January 6, 2023
1 min read

A Harvard professor’s book asks: What if the Jan. 6 attack had succeeded?…

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Dot’s Reading Room – Y’all for Yankees?

by Dorothy Bergin
January 4, 2023
1 min read

“Y'all," that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time.…

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Dot’s Reading Room: ‘Over the Holidays Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist’

by Dorothy Bergin
December 21, 2022
1 min read

“How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them?"…

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Dot’s Reading Room – The First Televised World Series Spurred America’s Television Boom,  75 Years Ago

by Dorothy Bergin
November 2, 2022
1 min read

It wasn’t until the 1947 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers – 75 years ago – that fans…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Our Very Distant Cousins – the Neanderthals

by Dorothy Bergin
October 6, 2022
1 min read

It must have been all those National Geographic Magazines I devoured as a child but I’ve always been fascinated by the Neanderthals.…

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This week, Sept. 18-24, is “Banned Books” Week ~ “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us”

by Dorothy Bergin
September 21, 2022
1 min read

An article in The Conversation by a University of Southern California professor who teaches a class on banned books says book bans…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Electric School Buses ~ 1,000 in California, 18 in Massachusetts

by Dorothy Bergin
September 2, 2022
1 min read

Electric school buses are taking students back to school – bringing cleaner air and lower maintenance costs to school districts across the…

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Dot’s Reading Room ~ The Evolution of the National Rifle Association

by Dorothy Bergin
May 27, 2022
1 min read

This timely article appears in today’s issue of The Conversation:How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to…

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Dot’s Reading Room: A New Concern as You Start to Think About Filing Your Tax Return….

by Dorothy Bergin
February 1, 2022
1 min read

Government agencies—including the IRS—are using a facial recognition company to prove your identity.  James Hendler, Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences,…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Now for something on the lighter side: Fruitcake

by Dorothy Bergin
December 24, 2021
1 min read

“The Magnificent History of the Maligned and Misunderstood Fruitcake,” by Jeffrey Miller, Associate Professor of Hospitality Management at Colorado State University, posted…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Changes Coming to US Postal Service Board of Directors ~ Why it Matters

by Dorothy Bergin
December 1, 2021
1 min read

As the holidays draw ever nearer, the makeup of the US Postal Service Board of Directors takes on new importance to Bedford,…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Are Torrential Rains Becoming the Norm?

by The Bedford Citizen
September 7, 2021
1 min read

Last week’s rainfall and the “lake” that formed in the Stop and Shop plaza are local reminders that climate change can hit…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Farmers’ Markets Offer Fresh Food and Community Connections

by The Bedford Citizen
August 4, 2021
1 min read

One of my fond childhood memories is of going with my mother on a Saturday morning to the Raleigh, NC farmer’s market. …

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Dot’s Reading Room: US Postal Service, Part II ~ Still Sending U.S. Mail?

by Dorothy Bergin
July 8, 2021
1 min read

If you think mail delivery is slow now, just wait until Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s proposed restructuring takes effect.

In the June 24…

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Dot’s Reading Room: US Postal Service Update, Part 1 ~ Did You Ever Wonder …

by Dorothy Bergin
July 7, 2021
1 min read

... What it's like to ride in a US Postal Truck?

When the U.S. mail trucks come lumbering around your neighborhood did you…

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Dot’s Reading Room: ‘Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, and floods’ and Bedford’s Hazard Mitigation Plan for Municpal Vulnerability Preparedness

by Dorothy Bergin
June 10, 2021
1 min read

"Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods – whatever your local risk, here's how to be more weather-ready, a recent article in The Conversation dovetails…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Non-fungible Tokens

by The Bedford Citizen
April 6, 2021
1 min read

Suddenly-at least to this person’s eye—a new term has come into the language, and into print. What, you may ask, is a…

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Climate Change ~ Blowing A Gale on a Chilly, Chilly Day

by The Bedford Citizen
March 2, 2021
1 min read

Texas and its recent cold weather problems are a long way from Bedford, but we’re not immune from the possibility-or even the…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Ideological Extremists Grab Media Attention and Distort Issue Debate

by The Bedford Citizen
February 16, 2021
1 min read

Today’s article from The Conversation says Congressional members who espouse extreme positions get a lot of airtime and exposure but their actual…

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Dot’s Reading Room: How Age Diversity in a Presidential Cabinet could Affect Policies and Programs

by The Bedford Citizen
February 9, 2021
1 min read

President Joe Biden says his top appointments were purposely chosen “to look like America.” Will his mix of ages have an impact…

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Dot’s Reading Room ~ ‘The Conversation’ a Compendium of Research Papers from Various Universities

by The Bedford Citizen
January 18, 2021
1 min read

For today I’m not calling your attention to a specific article but to an online source that I think is worth following.

It’s…

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Dot’s Reading Room – A Thought-Provoking Article from ‘The Correspondent’

by The Bedford Citizen
November 14, 2020
1 min read

Although Joe Biden won the US election last week, Donald Trump won a record-breaking 71 million votes. In Bedford, the incumbent president…

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Dot’s Reading Room: As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place

by The Bedford Citizen
October 21, 2020
1 min read

What kinds of news stories would you expect to find in a publication called Maine Business Daily? Most likely you’d think there…

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