DEAR ABBY: For 50 years, I had a close career and personal friend I’ll call “Ellen.” She has been married a long time, but I know she and her husband have had some rocky patches. Ellen was with me through the tragic loss of my son and, six weeks later, my very ill husband. I couldn’t have gotten through it without her.
Dear Doctors: We don’t hear about COVID-19 that much these days. The words I keep hearing are endemic, epidemic and outbreak.
Memories tend to surface like starfish from the deep to remind us of things we need to know. Last week my husband and I visited his son, Joe, wife Juli and their three children.
Climate change is stoking life-threatening heat and wildfires in Europe while tens of millions of Americans in the South, Southwest and Midwest broil under excessive heat this week. Much of California is under strict outdoor watering restrictions because of severe drought. But President Biden’s best hope for serious climate action has collapsed.
Much as I’d like to blame every modern social ill on social media – which is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel – I’m not sure that’s quite on the mark. All we could want is a tap or two away on those smart-smart things we still quaintly call “phones.” Your bank balance? Your 401(k) balance? Time and temp? Facebook, Instagram and the Next Big Thing.
It’s not easy to make sense of the 77-minute video shot from an overhead camera near the classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were murdered in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. The video — released last week by the Austin American-Statesman — has an audio track that is garbled to near-unintelligibility.
Mark Cuban’s latest business venture may be even more watchable than his appearances on the “Shark Tank” reality show. Even if you’re not a fan of that program, there’s good reason to keep an eye on what he’s doing.
As COVID-19 killed thousands of Americans every day in late 2020 and early 2021, the U.S. government’s rapid success in shepherding the creation, emergency approval and initial rollout of safe, effective, free vaccines was a major public health victory — one made all the more amazing because it came under a president who spent part of his last year in office saying the pandemic was less of a problem than it was.
For 40 years, the Truman Heartland Community Foundation has been assisting the generous people of Eastern Jackson County in enriching the lives of students throughout the region. A scholarship fund is a simple yet powerful way to celebrate someone special, honor the memory of a loved one, or participate in corporate giving.
The Independence School District has made the wrong move at every turn in its fiasco of pulling a book, “Cats vs. Robots #1: This is War!” from an elementary school library.