“When White folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” We’ve known this old adage for years but never before did it strike so close to home as it did last month when COVID finally caught up with our interracial family. First, a little background. Since the global pandemic began in ...
A few months ago, I wrote an article in this space about the subject of “period poverty” and our desire at United Way to take aim at this problem locally. Today I will give you an exciting update! But for starters, let us do a quick refresher on what “period poverty” is, why it is ...
This ... will be the mightiest day in the history of our lives, the holiest, & the most generous toward us both -- for it makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, & doubles the strength of each whereby to perform it; it gives to two questioning ...
Slick television ads paid for by Big Tech have been running for weeks in New Hampshire, which are extremely misleading claiming that , “Your Amazon will be broken” and “you’ll lose your Prime” and the “ability to use Google Maps,” but this is simply not true. SB 2992, the American ...
The Republicans running the anti-Hassan ad should be ashamed of themselves. The ad that claims she raised the gasoline tax by 23% sounds horrible but: What she did do, was eight years ago when she was governor she added four cents to the tax (18 cents to 22 cents) with the tipulation that ...
Gas just passed $5. Eggs are $2 more a dozen. Prices are up on everything. Republicans see an advantage: blame Biden, and blame any Democrat running in this fall’s elections. It’s an obvious ploy. But, will Republicans actually DO ANYTHING to reduce your pain at the pump or reduce your ...