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Flooding dangers from the approaching remnants of Hurricane Ida are becoming more pronounced Tuesday from the National Weather Service.
The morning briefing package shows all of Berks County in the heaviest rainfall zone of 4 to 6 inches, with most of it falling in 24 hours....

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Health professionals have a difficult enough time battling the coronavirus pandemic. The last thing they need is to deal with the growing number of people taking unproven drugs for preventing COVID-19 infections.
The latest sad example is the self-administration of the drug ivermectin. This was promoted primarily by several talking heads on conservative media extolling ivermectin’s use, based on no reputable science whatsoever. Reports from state poison control...

Reading has a dam problem.
The city knows it has to do something to Bernhart Dam to satisfy the state Department of Environmental Protection regulations, and with American Rescue Plan funding now may be the time for the city to fix the Ontelaunee Dam....

For this month’s Challenge the Prof, I interviewed Dr. Katie P. Desiderio, associate professor of management and Assistant Vice President for Corporate Educational Partnerships, Moravian University, and Principal of Proximal Development, a leadership...