Dear Doctors: My wife read somewhere that when kids grow up with a dog in the house, it can keep them from getting schizophrenia. I know that having a pet can help kids develop responsibility, but preventing mental illness seems like a stretch.
After weeks of reverses, Russia’s army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin’s response, characteristically, has been to escalate on other fronts.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis referred to a “biblical storm surge,” he was assessing Hurricane Ian’s damage and, unknowingly, prophesying what’s to come in future years and decades in Florida.
Sen. Lindsay Graham’s proposal for a nationwide ban on abortions is not just a political disaster for Republicans, it’s bad policy for the nation.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is once again using our tax dollars to get free publicity for his run for the U.S. Senate. His latest shameful legal adventure is signing a brief written by other rightwing attorneys general in support of former President Trump’s embarrassing behavior regarding official government documents he had squirreled away at his resort in Florida.
The Friends Committee on National Legislation Independence, Missouri advocacy team thanks Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver II for co-sponsoring HJ Resolution 87 directing the removal of United States armed forces from hostilities in the Republic of Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.
Amid the stir caused by President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel student loan debts, far too little attention has been paid to another far-reaching reform: the administration’s change to a lending program known as income-driven repayment (or IDR). If widely applied, Biden’s proposal would provide additional relief to millions of borrowers — and make the U.S. student loan system even costlier and more dysfunctional than it already is.
Flu season is fast approaching. Flu shots are now available, containing strains recommended by the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee in March. Given the long lead time required to manufacture some 180 million flu shot doses, scientists are forced to make informed guesses, a daunting task under the best of circumstances.
Every woman, at least once in her life, ought to be Queen for a Day. My sister Bobbie waited 80 years for her turn.
Here we are on the doorstep of October – the best month of the year in the Midwest – so let’s enjoy it. Yes, we desperately need rain, but right now it’s one sunny, warm, clear day and one cool, clear night after another.