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More states are closing schools and issuing various shelter-in-place or social distancing warnings.As a result, small businesses have been pummeled. But not all of them. Many people are reading books again. For America’s youth, a “book” is similar to a website, but it’s printed on paper, so it can be screened even if the internet…

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This tweet has caused a stir among Scaiaholics:Undoctored map of the Midwest as found on google pic.twitter.com/kHdABWxM60— Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) April 25, 2019I received a text from my first boss alerting me to this tweet. He declared that he laughed out loud when he saw this because Ohio is in the Northeast, not the Midwest…

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The Gluten Plus Diet

Several members of my newsroom are on the low-carb diets, discussing ketones and what-not. One of the traffic anchors will occasionally come back to the coffee machine [my desk is near the coffee machine because I’m nothing if not a social butterfly] and talk about things she can and cannot eat with another reporter.But a recent…

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The Alan Scaia Chorus

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My first boss from my days back in Oregon texted me the other day. He was asking, quite understandably, if I was eating at a Rocco’s Pizza location in Pasco, Washington.He explained they couldn’t take a picture without causing a scene, but he said he found my doppelganger. I replied if this was my doppelganger in both…

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Big Scai’s Beer Frontier

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As part of my series on million dollar business ideas, let me introduce you to Big Scai’s Beer Frontier [patent pending].Back when I lived in Oregon, I once mentioned beer and liquor drive-thrus back home in Ohio. An associate, I explained, had worked at the iconic Fat Daddy’s drive-thru in Moraine.No one in Oregon…

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