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Opinion: Congress created the Facebook monster
By WYATT EMMERICH
Wed,11/03/21-1:24PM , 964 Reads 13,661 Statewide
Facebook is back in the headlines and the news is not favorable.
A few years back, Facebook changed its newsfeed algorithm to de-emphasize news and emphasize “engagement.”
Turns out, people are highly engaged when they are angry. So, any post that generated lots of anger emojis shot up in the newsfeed rankings.
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Opinion: A fivefer in Texas
By WYATT EMMERICH
Wed,10/27/21-3:06PM , 965 Reads 29,292 Statewide
With the delta variant winding down, Ginny and I headed to Texas for a week-long trip — our first trip in what seems like forever.
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Opinion: Killing the goose that’s laying the golden egg
By WYATT EMMERICH
Tue,10/26/21-1:36PM , 1,114 Reads 26,904 Statewide
It is amazing to think that Russia now has a flat tax of 15 percent while our nation’s tax code is mired in 45,000 pages of regulation.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” That was the motto of Russia’s communist system. It’s a concept as old as Robin Hood: take from the rich and give to the poor.
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Opinion: Back in the day, these two Northsiders swam the Mississippi
By WYATT EMMERICH
Thu,10/21/21-8:36PM , 1,248 Reads 27,665 Statewide
It is the nature of American youth, not to fully appreciate the elderly. This is a defect of American culture and should not be so. In India, just the opposite is true. The elderly are revered and put on a pedestal.
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