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In May, the Pew Research Center published results from January and April surveys on African-American voters’ opinions on the upcoming November election and domestic and foreign policy, along with their thoughts regarding President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

When you purchase real property, you attend a closing (which is not always in person) and the seller(s) sign(s) a deed to you as buyer. This deed identifies the property (with a legal description approved by the county tax map office). Upon the deed getting executed the deed then gets recorded by the title company in the county recorder’s office. In most cases, the original deed then gets returned to the buyer after recording.

At this point in his life, Father Dennis Walsh looked forward to a slower pace of life.

Put aside former president Donald Trump (an impossible task for some) and examine the Supreme Court’s majority ruling that protects any president from litigation for decisions and actions he (or she, but for the sake of this column I will use the male pronoun) has made while in office.

The kid in me really enjoyed Disney Pixar’s “Inside Out 2,” the sequel to the beloved 2015 film that introduced us to Riley, an only child who is somewhat shy but has a big heart of kindness. I actually think the first film was funnier as it tackled Riley’s growing emotions of Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust and Anger from a young girl to the beginning of her preteen years. The setup of Riley’s emotions controlling her actions through a console in her brain was quite creative along with depicting how long-term and short-term memories were stored. The mind construction workers, whom critics described as “jellybean-like characters,” were hilarious as they kept everything together from running the Train of Thought to putting on REM-show dream productions at night. Riley’s life overall is a happy one. She’s well cared for by her parents and has a close friend group. The first challenge of navigating emotional and social changes comes when her family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco. Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust and Anger struggle a bit to get Riley through being “the new girl at school” and overcoming doubts in trying out for a youth hockey team. At the end of the film, the mind workers bring an expanded console for the emotions to operate that includes a large, red puberty button. This was the hint for the primary theme in the second storyline.

I like to think I’m hot. I like to think I’m cool, too. In reality, I am neither — unless I have to stick a big, heavy air conditioner in the bedroom window and another in the office window, in which case, if I even survive, I am both.

Americans are in a sour mood these days. Democrats, Republicans and independents can’t agree on much. Yet, there’s a sweet spot on Capitol Hill where everyone shares a moment of bipartisan bliss.

Going into Joe Biden’s debate with Donald Trump on CNN, the big question was whether Biden could last 90 minutes.

While standing a mere 5”4” tall, making him the shortest president in history, James Madison’s achievements make him one of America’s greatest Founding Fathers of all. Before occupying the White House, Madison established quite a name for himself as a legislator, before serving as a trusted adviser to President George Washington and Secretary of State in the Jefferson administration.

If you’ve ever wondered just how many of us there are who participate in the affairs of the living at any moment in time, there’s actually a website, worldometers.info, which provides a ticker with a rolling count. There are 8,111,304,849 of us, although those last three digits bounce up and down constantly, depending on who’s winning the ongoing competition between joyous birth and sorrowful death.