Advance Morning News
It's Wednesday, March 5. Today's stories include a new dashboard providing data on the local childcare shortage and Donnie Johnston's column.
New Data Dashboard Provides a Clear Picture of Childcare Availability in the Fredericksburg Area
By Adele Uphaus
In the Fredericksburg area, there are 14,961 children under the age of 5 who come from families where all available parents are in the workforce—but there is only enough year-round childcare available for a little over half of them.
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Can You Say, “Sudetenland?”
By Donnie Johnston
To call President Donald Trump’s ambush of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a national embarrassment is vastly understating the severity of the episode.
To take it one step farther, it defied the court of a well-mannered man. You don’t bring a visitor into your home and then humiliate him. Trump, as always, showed no class.
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