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Finding healthy food a concern

A teen in the United Kingdom lost his eyesight to nutritional optic neuropathy, a condition most often seen in countries where nutritious food and the ability to eat a varied diet isn’t plentiful.In this boyĢƵ case, according to a report from the BBC, the boy existed on a diet of potato ...

The number one need of the human condition, part 2

<em>This weekĢƵ column is the second installment in a two-part series titled “The Number One Need of the Human Condition.” Part one published on Aug. 30.</em>Back step into this thought, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?Your ...

Opioid verdicts have to hurt

What is the cost of a crisis?The opioid epidemic has been a greedy monster, demanding more and more resources from all levels of government as well as hospitals and insurance companies over the last 20 years. It has eaten lives and devoured communities. In 2013 alone, the Centers for Disease ...

Can two ex-governors offer hope for consensus?

Politics, the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck famously said, “is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best.”Surveying our political landscape these days, itĢƵ all too easy to conclude that our elected leaders can’t even get to the next, next best. Or ...

Senate to consider American job-busting bill

Shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer break, what it aggrandizingly likes to refer to as “constituent work days,” the House of Representatives passed a horrible immigration bill.Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who never met a bill to expand the foreign-born labor pool at American ...

Impromptu bring child to work day

My son was pressed into a business trip to Boston, so they called in the second string to hang with Zoey. Because I had had trouble falling asleep the night before and because I woke up at 6:30 a.m., the day started with some pre-existing challenges. I was tired, but that wasn’t gonna keep me ...