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It’s okay to not be okay

Anyone who says they haven’t been impacted by the stress of the past five months is either a superhero or is lying to themselves.In ways small and large and across all age groups and genders, COVID-19 has changed our ability to live in the same way we did last year at this time.For some, that ...

About 1 in 4 Americans has a disability, and odds are that one day you will be one of them, even if you are now in your teens or 20s and in the full bloom of youth.ThereÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a decent likelihood that one day your hearing will start to fade, your vision will become blurrier, or arthritis will ...

The front page of last MondayÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ <em>Wall Street Journal</em> included an article portending trouble for businesses not only in the nationÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ big cities, but also for retailers, restaurants and other consumer-reliant entities in smaller business hubs such as ...

Research on plasma promising

Public attention in the COVID-19 pandemic emergency has focused mostly on the horrific case and death numbers and the challenges hospitals and health care workers are facing.Additionally, people keep hoping for promising news about a possible quick cure or effective vaccine.The issue of the ...

No easy solutions

Summer has been a nice respite.ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ felt freeing to get some sunshine, to go for a swim or fish, or to take the dogs for a walk.The state orders were significantly relaxed (locally, on June 5) and we also got to step back into the social lives we’d missed for weeks.As we went out, we were ...

Replace monuments with signs of peace

The monuments to Confederate generals and to those who fought to maintain slavery are coming down. ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a good thing and long overdue.It cannot stop there, however, as we move not only to eradicate their symbolism, but the very real systemic racism they represent, and which sadly persists ...