Our country is a place of unlimited possibilities. Our society allows people to accomplish things no one could even imagine. But imagination can go both ways. Unfortunately, the unimaginable is not always good. Once again, a deranged man with a military-like AR-15 style assault rifle massacred 19 elementary school kids and 2 teachers in Uvalde,…
Category: Opinion
Hospitals Seek to End Labor and Delivery Care
When did our expectations that hospitals exist to serve the public good drop so low? Was it around the time we normalized millions in compensation to CEOs? Or is it now, when we accept the fact that hospitals are denying the women they serve the most basic human healthcare need — the right to deliver…
Opinion: CARES act leaves out some community theaters
As currently written the latest round of federal stimulus through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, (SVOG), with its original and admirable goal of providing a lifeline to live music venues shuttered for many months by a deadly pandemic, excludes thousands of community theaters from accessing aid needed to keep afloat the cultural lifeblood of many…
Letter to the Editor: If you can’t do what you do, do what you can
Last week, Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County (CLC) announced that, in light of the rapidly developing Covid-19 situation, we reluctantly canceled our Annual Benefit scheduled for April 24. The event is our most important fundraiser, and this year’s event was to feature the amazing Gloria Gaynor. Along with everyone in the world, we are…
Getting groceries in the middle of an outbreak
Notes and observation from a simple shopping trip made in a different world It was like a ritual of sorts. Getting ready to head out into the thick cloud full of an invisible killer. This would be the first time, since the epidemic started hitting our region, that anyone from our family would venture much…