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Periods are part of growing up

Q. Why don’t I have a period yet? I live with my gram, and sheĢƵ old so I can’t ask her. My friend goes to a different school than me and they had a class in school about periods, but my school doesn’t. I have so many questions? Why do people have periods anyway? My friend says they ...

Trump critics are having a scary good time

Donald Trump acts like there's no tomorrow. How else to explain the fact that he's willfully squandered the goodwill of at least some of the people who elected and then sustained him early in his second presidency? A recent poll - a Pew poll released last week - places Trump's job approval at ...

Mom anxious about young teen taking hormones

Q. I have a problem. Since my periods started two years ago, they’ve gotten worse and worse. My cramps are often unbearable. I’m in a lot of pain at least 3-4 days each cycle. I told my pediatrician at my yearly exam and she suggested to my mom that she take me to a gynecologist. My mom got ...

A democracy primer, then and now

This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge in 1775, firing the "shots heard 'round the world" and starting the war for independence that marked the emergence of a new world order - that order being ...

Putting grades in perspective

Q. 1: I read your column about test anxiety with interest. I’m not anxious about taking tests as much as I’m anxious about getting good grades. I worry about grades all the time. It feels like my grades are all that matter to my mom. – 16-year-old ...

OP-ED: Gatsby: once smitten, always in love

Every summer for more than I can recall, I've read, or reread, two books, both by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One is the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1940, at the age of 44 - “The Last Tycoon,” or more properly, “The Love of the Last Tycoon, A Western.” The other is ...