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Saratoga North Edition | Thursday, May 5, 2022

Bar shut down by city Gaffney’s disputes that its checks bounced for inspections and license By WENDY LIBERATORE

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SARATOGA - Put your lawnmower aside for the month of May to help save bees and the planet. This year, Sustainable Saratoga is promoting No Mow May, a national movement in which people don’t mow their lawns for one month in order to help provide more food sources for bees and other pollinators emerging from winter hibernation. Lawns that remain un-mowed during the month of May allow more species to grow, including some that flower early in the year, and help sustain pollinators. Appleton, Wisconsin was the first U.S. community to adopt No Mow May, in 2020. It proved exceptionally successful in supporting pollinators: No Mow May lawns had five times as many bees and three times as many bee species as lawns that were mown, according to scientists in Wisconsin. The movement has quickly spread throughout that state as well as to Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Montana, according to a recent article in the New York Times. “No Mow May is a simple but very effective way that we can help bees and other pollinators, which are facing catastrophic declines due to climate change, pesticides, and habitat loss,” says Wendy Please see BEES 8

SARATOGA SPRINGS City Hall ordered popular nightclub and bar Gaffney’s to close Monday, at least temporarily. City Commissioner of Public Safety James Montagnino said on Monday afternoon that the city’s code enforcement officer signed a notice informing its owner and management that Gaffney’s “must cease all operations immediately … until you have obtained the proper license.” Montagnino said the notice was issued after two checks from Gaffney’s — one for fire inspection and another for its eating, drinking and cabaret license — bounced at City Hall. The two checks, written to the Commissioner of Finance, totaled $435, he said. Gaffney’s owner, Justin Manfro, disputes that the checks bounced. Manfro said in an email to the Times Union that he asked his bookkeeper about it, and the bookkeeper said

both were paid and the checks cleared in March. All this comes at the same time that Gaffney’s has a hearing Thursday before the state Liquor Authority. The proceeding was called after city police reported Gaffney’s to the authority in November, alleging the bar has five violations including “a continued pattern of noise and disturbance at the premises.” The nightclub is also accused of being the site of an alleged stabbing early Sunday morning. According to Montagnino, six men got into a dispute at about 2:20 a.m. that ended with one allegedly getting stabbed several times, including in the abdomen. “The argument turned into a fistfight,” he said. “The bouncer grabbed one of the guys to take him off another guy and while he was holding him, somebody punched the guy being held. It turned into a melee that spilled into the street.” However, before the fight continued outside, Montagnino said, one of the people in the fight was allegedly stabbed in the bar. Saratoga Springs police broke up the fighting in the streets and one of the officers suffered an

elbow injury, Montagnino said. The commissioner said the stabbing victim was transported to Albany Medical Center Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. He also said the police arrested three people for disorderly conduct. One had the additional charge of obstructing governmental administration. He said an arrest has not yet taken place for the assault, but believes one is coming shortly. The Saratoga Springs police arrest blotter shows three men in their 20s were charged from a May 1 incident on Caroline Street. “The victim is cooperating,” Montagnino said. As covered in a previous Times Union story, a longtime employee of Gaffney’s sent numerous videos of recent fights outside a number of bars in the Caroline Street neighborhood, which is where Gaffney’s is located and is the hub of the city’s nightlife. He claimed the videos show that Gaffney’s is not the only bar with fights and that police are hyper-focused on Gaffney’s. The state Liquor Authority said Gaffney’s

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Saratoga Springs signed a notice informing its owner and management that Gaffney’s “must cease all operations immediately … until you have obtained the proper license.”

will face a hearing with an administrative law judge on Thursday. Gaffney’s has pleaded not guilty to the violations. In addition to the five violations from November, Gaffney’s is also accused of “availing their license to an undisclosed person,” on Dec. 16, 2021, which the authority says is a serious violation. “Availing” is when a person who was not disclosed to the authority has an ownership or other financial/ controlling interest in a licensed business. Also, Saratoga Springs police referred Gaffney’s to the authority again on March 15 noting four violations of “operating a disorderly premise.” The authority is also looking into two alleged stabbings at Gaffney’s, including the one Sunday morning.

“The SLA opened an investigation following the reports of a stabbing … at Gaffney’s and we are working closely with the Saratoga Police Department to obtain all necessary reports regarding this incident,” SLA spokesman Joshua Heller said. “The SLA’s investigation into this matter is ongoing.” The authority also noted that it only imposes discipline on a licensee “after charges have been filed and the licensee is afforded due process.” The state authority may impose a civil fine of up to $10,000 per violation and/ or a cancellation or revocation of the license. If a license is revoked, the holder of the license cannot have a license anywhere in the state for two years.

Students engineer creativity with youth By KATHLEEN MOORE

SARATOGA SPRINGS - When Grayson Detrick was young, his family kept asking him what he wanted to do when he grew up. He didn’t have an answer until this year, his senior year in high school. Now he wants to be a mechanical engineer, not the type of occupation typically encountered in elementary school. That’s why he’s part of a group of Saratoga Springs High School students who are teaching engineering to elementary school children on Saturdays. The club is called Educating Young Engineers. “I really didn’t get exposed to engineering till high school,” Detrick said as second-graders modified stomp rockets to reduce drag and improve aim. “Having this would have really helped,” he said. Sure, lots of STEM kits are sold for the elementary school set nowadays, but he said those aren’t truly teaching engineering. “Mostly you’re following directions,” Detrick said. “It’s kind of like Legos. This (program) is more what you’ll experience as

an engineer.” Students spent the morning building items and then rebuilding them to try for better performance. “Mine keeps breaking,” said Maeve Mashaw, 9, a fourth-grader, as she aimed a catapult. She paused and turned the catapult over and over in her hands. “I’m going to try tying on a rubber band to the bottom,” she said. She shot another table tennis ball. It missed the hole. The catapult broke again. She sighed and talked it over with another fourth-grader, discussing what was working in other catapults that she could try. “We get to be creative and try out new methods,” said Sebastiano Hayward, 11, a fifth-grader. “I just tried making a better version.” He and his brother were modifying their catapult every few throws, trying to maximize the number of points they got by hitting different holes. While they were tracking their points, others were pleased to simply build a functional catapult. “I like to make what I imagine and see how

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Lillian Bergbom, a junior at Saratoga Springs High School, left, leads Nora Blakely, 9, and Julianna Schmalz, 10, during an engineering program run by the high school students.

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Ballston Spa Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee to Discuss Stormwater Management BALLSTON SPA - The Village of Ballston Spa’s Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee will meet twice during the month of May to discuss the village’s stormwater management. The meetings will be held on the first and third Thursdays of the month, May 5 and May 19, at 7 pm at the Saratoga County Office Building at 50 West High Street in Ballston Spa. The committee will consider aspects of the village’s storm sewer system, anticipated rainfall and its effects, capacity of creeks and flood plains within the village. Discussion will then follow on what determinations need to be made to best handle stormwater and set priorities for implementation. The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee has been formed to work in conjunction with a professional planning consul-

Saratoga County Seeks Volunteers To Deliver Meals To Homebound Seniors BALLSTON SPA Immediate Need - The Saratoga County Department of Aging and Youth Services is seeking volunteers to deliver meals to homebound seniors in the following areas: Ballston Spa, South Glens Falls, Wilton, Hadley, Schuylerville, and Greenfield. This important program helps many seniors, age 60 and older, remain independent in their homes by providing them with a nutritious ready-to-eat

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tant to identify and study several topics over the course of the next year in order to create a final plan for approval by the Village board of trustees. All meetings are open to the public, who are encouraged to attend and provide input, either in-person attendance or via Zoom. Zoom link will be available prior to each meeting at https://www.villageofballstonspa.org/comprehensive-plan-steering-committee. For more information, contact steering committee chairperson Karen Martell at karenmartell27@gmail. com or the Village Office at 518 885-5711, villageclerk@villageofballstonspa.org.

NARCAN Training MALTA - The Town of Malta’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is partnering with the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Dept. to provide NARCAN Training for town residents. Opioid overdose deaths (including those from heroin) have skyrocketed during the pandemic, killing more than 69,000 people

lunch each weekday. Meals are picked up at 11AM and delivered until 1PM. Volunteers’ schedules are flexible to meet their availability. To become a volunteer, individuals must submit paperwork, including references, to the Saratoga County Department of Aging and Youth Services. Volunteers must have a valid driver license and their own vehicle. Training and orientation are provided to all volunteers. Being a volunteer for this program is a gratifying experience as seniors look forward to seeing a friendly face with

in 2020 alone. What if someone you cared about fell victim to this addiction and his/her life was in severe danger – would you know what to do? Would you have anything on hand to administer and save a life? In this course you will learn how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and administer the opioid overdose reversal drug ‘Naloxone’. This free class is open to Malta residents and will be held on Thursday, May 12th at 6:00pm in the Malta Community Center. Please call the Center at 518-899-4411 to register as you will be receiving a free NARCAN kit just for attending. Town of Malta C.E.R.T. Training Class The Town of Malta is once again presenting its popular CERT Training Class. This seven-week course is designed to give basic training in the following areas so attendees will learn skills needed to help protect themselves, their families, and their neighbors in an emergency situation. Among the skills you will learn are: CPR, basic First Aid, NAR-

CAN training (with kits distributed to attendees) disaster preparedness and basic emergency response skills including fire safety, light search and rescue, disaster medical operations, and much more. Upon successful completion of the course you will have an opportunity to join the Town of Malta’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and give back to your community. This free training is open to all Malta Residents (18 years of age and older) and will be presented at the Malta Community Center on: Tuesday evenings; May 3 to June 14 – from 6:00 - 9:00pm. To register for the course please visit the Center’s website at: https://maltaparksrec. com/info/activities/default.aspx. For questions or more information, please email CW@crkl. com.

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and enjoy a night of Peace and Love. Tickets are $20 per person which includes dancing and a turkey dinner. “Cool” raffle baskets, trivia and photos in a classic car will make for an enjoyable evening. Call Judy at 518-587-5568 to reserve table space.

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AROUND YOUR COMMUNITY Volunteers Sought for Ballston Lake Clean Up Day BALLSTON LAKE The Annual Ballston Lake Clean Up Day is set for Saturday, May 7. Volunteers are welcome to join in at by showing up at the Ballston Lake Fire Department, on Route 146-A at 8 AM to pick up their road assignments. Groups may preregister through devoepr@nycap.rr.com. The project involves doing a clean sweep of winter trash on local roadways in the hamlet of Ballston Lake and its environs. The Burnt Hills Ballston Lake Business & Professional Association, the Ballston Lake Improvement Association and the Town of Ballston sponsor the spring clean-up of accumulated roadside debris. Scores of local residents, businesspeople, town authorities and local organizations including scout troops, confirmation classes and students in need of community service projects show up to volunteer. The annual event dates back to the mid-1970s. The Town of Ballston parks a large truck at the Ballston Lake Fire Department and at the Outlet Road Parking lot for volunteers to deposit their bags when they have finished their assignments. Participants are urged to wear gloves and closed toed shoes. Volunteers can pick up their street assignments, and receive free tee shirts, refreshments and trash bags from 8 AM through 10 am at the Ballston Lake Fire House on May 7. Further Information may be found at www. ballstonlake.org.

The Ballston Area Seniors Chorus Is Looking For a Piano Player BALLSTON SPA - The piano player will help us with rehearsals and concerts. We meet on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Milton Community Center 310 Northline Rd. in Ballston Spa, NY Please call Alison Bodle at 518-288-3565 if you are interested, and for more information.

Calling All Parents of Teens in the Ballston Spa School District BALLSTON SPA - Looking for Community Service Credit and Scholarships/ Grants for College? Join the Ballston Spa Lions LEO Club (Leadership, Experience, Opportunity) to work on community service projects coordinated by Lions LEO Club members that directly benefits the communities of the Ballston Spa area. If interested please contact Greg or Olivia Winters for more information. Cell #: 518-879-5263 / Email: gbpgwinters@gmail.com

Academy for Lifelong Learning Offering 37, 5-Week Courses This Spring SARATOGA - The Academy for Lifelong Learning is offering 37 spring courses in two, five -week sessions starting the week of April 11 and the week of May 16. Most courses are offered in-person and some by Zoom. Registration is now open. Brochures are available at www.esc.edu/all

Ballston Area Seniors BALLSTON SPA - The Ballston Area Seniors will be meeting at the Town of Milton Community Center, 310 Northline Rd. every Thursday at 10:00am To play cards, use the craft & pool rooms or just socialize. Lunch is at 12:00 noon. The Saratoga County Dept. of Aging & Youth is serving at the Center a Congregate Meals, Monday –Friday at 12:00 noon—1:00 pm. Reservation are required the day before your meal, call 518-8840163. At lunch the BASC Members may participate in Congregate Meals OR Pot Luck Lunch OR bring your own lunch, your choice. We will have pizza every third Thursday of the month. Coffee and hot water for tea will be available. More information on weekly activities will be given out at meeting and in weekly newspapers. We will be keeping you updated.

Search and Rescue Volunteers Needed CAPITAL DISTRICT - the Tri-State Emergency Team is recruiting volunteers to provide wildland and underwater searches within a 100 mile radius of Waterrford, NY. This includes all aspects of field and underwater search. The Tri-State Emergency Team responds when requested by NYS Forest Rangers and other police agencies throughout New York State, Western Vermont and Massachusetts. We are looking for certified scuba divers, experienced boat handlers, and people who enjoy hiking and the outdoors in general who wish to help people in need. The team will provide training and complete support as needed. Our headquarters is located in Waterford. Applicants need not live in Waterford to volunteer. If interested, please call 518-237-6744 or visit our website at www.tri-stateemergencyteam.org

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Ballston Spa Elks Lodge All You Can Eat Breakfast BALLSTON SPA - May 8, 2022 8am to 11am. Breakfast buffet includes scrambled eggs, home fries, pancakes, French toast, toast, eggs and omelets to order. Juice and coffee as well. Adults $9, Seniors $ and children under 10 $5. 10 Hamilton St Ballston Spa NY 120202, for more information please call 518-885-1149.

The League of Women Voters of Saratoga County is Seeking Questions from the Public for Upcoming Candidate Forums CAPITAL DISTRICT - Four School Districts: May 2 - Ballston Spa, May 3 - Lake George, May 4 Saratoga Springs, May 12- Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake. In order to have public participation we are soliciting questions in advance from the public and every effort will be made to ask the questions submitted by the greatest number of people. Questions should be emailed to vslwvsc@ gmail.com one week prior to the forum. Please place the School District in the subject line. There is no limit to the number of questions you may submit. Information about each forum may be found on the School District website closer to each forum date.

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Are Democrats Sleepwalking Into Long-Term Catastrophe? By Greg Sargent (c) 2022, The Washington Post The frenzied midterm second-guessing among Democrats appears to be intensifying. The stories are everywhere: Democrats fear that they've failed to counter GOP cultural attacks. That they've fumbled the politics of immigration. That they're unlikely to pass major new legislation to campaign on. That labor's decline has put key races in peril. That they've failed to address widespread economic anxieties. But a larger background fear potentially unites all these. It's that in some sense, Democrats face deeper structural disadvantages and more fundamental problems with their coalition that could prove extraordinarily challenging over the near and long term. You saw this fear bubble up when a piece written by little-known Democratic data cruncher Simon Bazelon stirred deep angst. It suggested Democrats may be "sleepwalking into a Senate disaster." Its argument is that the 2022 and 2024 elections could produce a GOP Senate majority that's filibuster-proof. The reason: The combination of the Senate's right-leaning bias and Democrats' travails with working class voters, not just Whites but also possibly Latinos. So I raised these fears with the guy whose central mission is protecting the Democratic Senate majority. That's J.B. Poersch, the well-regarded president of the Senate Majority PAC, who has worked on Senate races for two decades. The short version: Poersch acknowledges this is of deep concern among top strategists. Yet he takes a less alarmist long term view, and doesn't appear to see the problem as fundamental, which strikes me as the crux of the unknown here. The case for long-term Democratic calamity is this. Polarization and declining ticket-splitting means Democratic Senate candidates are over performing presidential candidates by increasingly negligible margins. This threatens to interlock with the Senate's bias against Democrats. That bias is the result of the Senate's over representation of rural and working class voters, which is exacerbated for Democrats by deepening polarization along college-noncollege and urban-rural lines. And so, Bazelon argues, doing well in the national popular vote will prove less and less helpful for Democrats. As it is, he says, they'll likely get 47% to 48% of the two-party vote in 2022, leaving them with 46 or 47 seats. But even if they get 51% of the national two-party vote in 2024, they'll still lose numerous seats (again because of the Senate's rightward lean) in places like West Virginia, Montana and Ohio, and possibly even Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Even a 51% victory in the 2024 two-party vote could leave Democrats with 39 Senate seats, Bazelon argues, giving Republicans a filibuster-proof majority. You may think such doomsaying scenarios are highly unlikely. But even so, the point is to plant a flag on the idea that Democrats must at least reduce their vulnerability to such structural deficits, to minimize the risk of catastrophe. That might include doing more to win back rural and working class Whites and to stem erosion among working class Latinos, as G. Elliott Morris argues. Problems like the decline of labor, GOP cultural and

immigration-related appeals to working class voters and the Democratic failure to pass new economic legislation are arguably part of that larger problem. So I asked Poersch of the Senate Majority PAC how seriously the party's top strategists take structural threats like ongoing educational and geographic polarization. "It is something we talk about internally quite a bit," Poersch told me. He also allowed that the "long view" poses problems distinct from "cycle to cycle" challenges. However, Poersch argues that Democrats have faced these deficits for a long time. Ultimately, he said, various factors particular to a race or cycle tend to determine whether those deficits can be overcome. "While I don't doubt that every cycle Senate Democrats have to scramble," Poersch said, Democrats aren't set to "lose the ability to have the majority" in a Rubicon-crossing sense. When I asked whether these deficits are becoming worse, for instance in the declining ability of senate candidates to over perform presidential ones, Poersch said individual races have a way of defying such trends. "It was just one year ago that a lot of Democrats were surprised when we won two seats in the state of Georgia," Poersch said. "With every cycle you have successes." Poersch did acknowledge some of these problems, but said Democrats "can cut off some of those trend lines" by "holding firm" in "unexpected" places. His view is basically that these trends aren't necessarily a prison sentence: "Historically Senate Democrats have proven that." A key threshold question is whether you believe the Democratic Party's image has broken down in non-cosmopolitan America in some fundamental sense. Pressed on this, Poersch didn't seem to accept the diagnosis. If Democrats continue centralizing working people, the economy and "fairness and opportunity," Poersch said, they'll "succeed in all sorts of states." But he allowed the party thinks "a lot" about how to boost margins with rural and non-college voters. This debate is ultimately very frustrating. Democrats are told to achieve distance from "wokeness," but these prescriptions are often too vague and don't entertain whether Democrats can counter cultural attacks by articulating their values with conviction and indicting Republican extremism. Talk about the party's image with workers also needs clarifying. Gabriel Winant, a historian of the U.S. working class, points out that declining organization is driving the problem: It makes it harder to appeal to a working class that's not otherwise monolithic, racially or in terms of values, rendering it "fragmented." "It's a challenge for the Democratic Party to be seen as the party of the working class without more organization and power within the working class outside of politics," Winant told me. Even if you dismiss the doomsaying, the party could send stronger signals that it is thinking hard about how to mitigate the long-term risks posed by these structural deficits.

Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall Victor Davis Hanson, Tribune Content Agency

Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged Left flipped out. Abruptly leftists began trashing their favorite electronic communications platform as the domain of the nation's elite, professional classes. Had they just discovered that they had been racists and privileged users all this time? And what happened to the Left's former worship of Musk as the man who revolutionized the clean, green automobile industry with his Tesla electric car company? Or Musk the space revolutionary and hip star trekker, who with his own money helped ensure the United States remains preeminent in space exploration? Or Musk, the patriot who is providing free next-generation internet service to the underdog Ukrainians fighting Russians for their lives? No matter. The Left reviles Musk because he has announced that Twitter will be the one social-media platform whose business is not to censor or massage free speech in an otherwise monopolist, intolerant, and hard-Left Silicon Valley. Who knows, Musk might even allow former president Donald Trump to communicate on Twitter - in the fashion that the terrorist Taliban, Iranian theocrats, and violent Antifa protesters all take for granted in their daily access to Twitter. But how did the once free-speech, anti-trust, let-it-all-hang out Left become a Victorian busybody, a censorious Soviet, and an old-fashioned robber-baron monopoly? When it discovered that few Americans wanted left-wing, socialist politics it turned elsewhere. It found power instead through control of American institutions, from academia and Wall Street to traditional and social media. When Musk merely talked about buying Twitter, the Left shrieked that an outlier multibillionaire owning a media - and especially a social media venue was unfair. The buyout was supposedly "dangerous" and "a threat to democracy." But the more the Left screamed, the less people listened. After all, left-wing Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has roughly 15 times more market capitalization than Twitter. It has an audience of 2 billion users - over seven times larger than Twitter's 271 million. Zuckerberg's monopoly on global social media and his enormous wealth were stealthily put in service to the Democratic Party in the 2020 election. He reportedly infused nearly $420 million of his media money into warping the vote in key precincts, by augmenting and absorbing the work of state registrars to empower likely left-wing voters. Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the second wealthiest man in the world, owns the influential Washington Post. It has moved markedly to the activist Left under his patronage. Multibillionaire Lisa Jobs, widow of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, owns The Atlantic. It has become an increasingly hard-Left political magazine. So in Orwellian fashion, apparently most media-owning, left-wing billionaires are good? But one social media-owning, non-left-wing billionaire is bad? How exactly might a Musk-owned Twitter alter an election? By emulating the former directors of Twitter and the rest of Silicon Valley social media who canceled not just conservatives, but any new communication they felt harmful to the 2020 Biden campaign? From the outset, it was clear that Hunter Biden's lost laptop incriminated his dad, Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Biden was referenced by his own quid pro quo, grifting son variously as "the Big Guy" and "Mr. Ten Percent" - a full partner in peddling Beltway influence to rich foreign actors. Yet in lockstep, social media banned most coverage of the pre-election laptop story. It instead spread its standby false narrative of "Russian disinformation." We now know the laptop was always authentic. The crude efforts to suppress mention of it were classic politicized news suppression. Still, the Left may well have some reason to be terrified of Elon Musk. Should he liberate Twitter from left-wing scolds and groupthinkers, would other renegade new companies and old standbys follow his lead? Is Musk's $46-billion acquisition the internet equivalent of Germans in November 1989 with sledgehammers smashing down the Berlin Wall? Does Musk sense that the looming November midterm elections may result in one of the rare landslide verdicts in American history? Does he assume the public prefers a muckraker who demands free speech rather than corporate insider cronies censoring expression they don't find useful? Polls show that the American people have had their fill of 14 months of self-inflicted, ideology-driven disasters. And why not, given the nonexistent border, spiking crime, inflation, unaffordable gasoline, and neo-Confederate racial fixations? Are the recent Netflix implosion, the CNN+ disaster, the Disney debacle, the Virginia statewide and San Francisco school board elections, the polls showing massive defections of Latinos from the Left, and the grass-roots pushback against government-imposed mask wearing, and explicit transgender education in the k-3 grades--also symptoms of a reckoning on the horizon? The country is ready for a revolution. And Musk believes he can lead it with his Silicon-Valley sledgehammer. So, as the Left says, "Bring it on."

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ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Avoid going down the rabbit hole that can be social media, Aries. Put your phone or tablet to the side for a little bit and focus your attention elsewhere. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Try to stay calm and grounded right now, Taurus. Others can learn from your example at work, as you likely will be the voice of reason among your colleagues. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, if you are having trouble figuring out a path this week, try to meditate on a solution. Find a quiet spot and visualize your goals and how you can achieve them. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Be mindful of whom you confide in this week, Cancer. Not everyone has your best interests at heart and may use the information you share to his or her advantage instead of yours. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 A partner or close friend may seem to pull away from you this week, Leo. Don’t take it personally as it won’t be a permanent break. Soon things will be back to normal. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Sticking to your normal routine this week simply will not be possible, Virgo. Start brainstorming ways you can get things done more quickly. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, your ego may take a temporary hit as someone in your sphere gets a promotion or a recognition before you. Don’t take this to heart as it is only time before you get to shine.

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