Public debate about the COVID-19 pandemic understandably focuses on the number of deaths from the disease. That number also plays a major role in the debate over whether the virus is serious enough to warrant the restrictions imposed to minimize its spread of the disease. But death is not the ...
In Tulsa on June 20, President Donald Trump announced that he had asked “his people” to go slow on virus testing, explaining that if you do more tests, you have more cases (which would be embarrassing). Spokespersons said the next day that Trump had spoken “tongue in cheek.” This was ...
Recently my aging frame got rushed to the hospital in the wee hours of the morning with a full-blown sciatica attack (an Iron Maiden type torture – not lethal, leaves no marks). Can recall wildly bright ceiling lights and the Wilton EMS woman with the kind eyes saying ‘Sir loosen your ...
The Republican caucus has voted to shut down the legislature by not agreeing to a rules change that would extend the legislative calendar because of the three month hiatus due to COVID-19. This Republican strategy means no legislation will be passed in 2020. Do the Republicans think the ...
As the global coronavirus pandemic rages on, more than a few of us have been guilty of looking exclusively within our borders and ignoring the plight of the poorest world citizens. Continuing down this path will inevitably lead to resurgences of this virus and others like it. Pandemics, as ...
Normally, when a twenty-two-year-old is running for State Representative, it is their first stop in the political realm, their first taste of what it means to understand and lead in the Granite State. That is not the case for State Representative Candidate in Nashua Ward 9, Tyler Gouveia, who ...