FRIDAY January 16 Editorial cartoon
FRIDAY January 16 Editorial cartoon
Feeling freed from Trump’s yoke in Philadelphia
President Donald Trump, with his brash, blaring mouth and devouring huge McDonald’s lunches, is the ugly American — the ugliest ever. He’s hurt the country in countless ways. Recently, the murder of Minnesota mother Renee Good, 37, shot in the face by a federal agent armed for war, awakened the national mood to anger across party lines. We Washingtonians have borne the brunt of his swath of destruction. One year out, we’re like a closed factory town that lost its lifeblood, much of the federal workforce. The week of Jan. 6, I could not stay another day in Trump’s ...
Some parts of Ohio struggle to provide mental health care as demand spikes
With increasing talk about a growing sense of anxiety and fragile mental well-being, it makes sense that some Ohioans are seeking needed mental health care. For most of them, finding timely care is a challenge. Health Policy Institute of Ohio says 75 of the state’s 88 counties are mental health shortage areas, according to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal. “We also did some focus groups with parents and caregivers of children needing mental health services and just asked about their experiences and some of them talked about wait lists two years long to get into a certain ...
Breakfast on the Hindenberg
I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. “Breakfast,” it read, “on board the airship Hindenburg.” The words dotted the page in elegant script like a poem: “Coffee, tea, milk, cocoa Eggs, boiled or in cup Frankfort sausage Ham, salami Cheese, fruit” I wondered if it was fake, written as it was in English, when the airship had been designed and its luxuries planned to broadcast the triumph of post-World War II German engineering. Joseph Goebbels ...
Minnesota fraud case raises questions
Back in the mists of time, Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey was asked on “Meet the Press” whether he liked spending the taxpayers’ money. The question was barbed, but his response was masterful. Yes, Humphrey said, he was fine if the public dollars went to beneficial projects and the money was carefully spent. Today’s scandal in Minnesota could have met the first requirement, but it doubly failed the second in spectacular fashion. While the loss of perhaps $1 billion to criminal operators was shocking, the blatant nature of the schemes proved even more so. The state’s political ...
Resolve to assist Red Cross in ’26
If your New Year’s resolutions included finding small ways to do good more frequently, the American Red Cross has some ideas for you. You — yes, you — are needed, right now. A glance at the organization’s website reveals an alert that there is an “EMERGENCY NEED for type O blood” because winter weather has caused a decline in donations. There’s even a pitch that if you give blood before Jan. 31, you can earn points to be used toward rewards. Here is information about blood drives through the end of January in the Mahoning Valley: TODAY — 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. ...