In the early morning of June 17, 1972 — 50 years ago Friday — five men broke into the Democratic Party’s national headquarters in the Watergate complex and were arrested. The burglary did not provoke much attention in the days after the arrests, but soon began to unravel into a mosaic ...
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 ...
Raise your hand if you, like me, get way too many SPAM phone calls and SPAM emails on any given day. The classic and most common (or should I say most annoying) call, of course, is the SPAM, AKA Robocall, that tells you your auto warranty has expired. If I bought every one of those auto ...
Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Association, representing licensed prescribers working in the state of New Hampshire, registered its members’ strong opposition to HB 1022, permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug Ivermectin by means of a standing order, to treat ...
“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 ...
While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s – that is until the United States Supreme Court stepped in with a historic 8-1 decision on June ...
