Recently I read a piece about a daughter whose mother was in the throes of dementia. She felt frustrated with her mother often. She was asking for so much help. The girl loved her mother, but felt ill prepared to care for her as she was. Her mother was 93 years old. One day she complained ...
There are more than a dozen options in the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities’ study of options to retool its district heating system. Three options make the most sense - exiting the district heating business altogether and letting 70 downtown building owners install their own boilers, ...
On our yearly jaunt this Spring to Florida, we took pride in only having the air conditioner (AC) on in our rented apartment once or twice during our stay. The nights were cool, daytime temperatures were in the mid-80’s, and it felt good just to experience the ocean breezes. However, in ...
This concerns the article in The Post-Journal on May 4, 2024. The gentleman proceeds to unjustly excoriate The Post-Journal for the editorial “New York Gun Laws Are Indeed Effective.” What The Post-Journal printed was “New York’s doing a good job of keeping guns out of the wrong ...
The federal government’s forgiveness of some student loans has proven to be controversial. The most common objections seem to be: 1) I never went to college so I should not subsidize student loan repayments for those that did, or 2) I went to college and paid off my loans in full, so should ...
Let’s pick up where we left off last week. May 17, 2024, marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Concurring in Missouri v. Jenkins, the school-desegregation from Kansas City, Justice Clarence Thomas in effect wrote in ...