Donald Trump is making immigration a major theme of his campaign of fear and grievance, and his prime example is Springfield, Ohio – 45 miles west of Columbus, the state capital. There, he claims, newcomers from Haiti are stealing and eating local pets.
My husband, Peter, had never had a cat before we adopted Felix, and Felix is taking full advantage of this.
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris came here, on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attracting a big crowd to her rally.
Dear Doctors: A few weeks ago, one side of my dad’s face became paralyzed. He couldn’t close his left eye, and the left side of his mouth wouldn’t work. We thought it was a stroke, but the ER doctors said it is Bell’s palsy. They said it eventually goes away. What causes it?
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have recently become part of a new social cooking group, and while I have been enjoying the sense of community and shared passion for food, I have noticed that some members have been sharing my recipes and personal cooking techniques online without my consent, just changing up details like switching basil leaves to onions. While I appreciate their enthusiasm and excitement about my creations, I value my privacy when it comes to my recipes. I would like to find a way to address this issue with the group without making it a big deal.
Being of Irish Catholic descent, I’ve always been basically pro-immigrant. All eight of my great-grandparents were born in that country, and my family taught me to consider myself “Irish” before American.
• Does your smartphone have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos on it? Storing all of those photos “in the cloud” has a big environmental impact. The energy required to store, manage and back up your images on servers is quite significant. In fact, a recent study showed the average person takes just under 1,000 photos a year, which is equal to 10.6 kg of C02 emissions a year. Multiply that by the billions of people with smartphones, and it adds up to a lot.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My 16-year-old teenage daughter landed a parttime job this semester, and I can tell she’s really feeling the pressure of trying to juggle work, school and her social life all at once. I want to support her independence and growth, but I can see how stressed out she is getting.
The best way to view the 2024 presidential election and to understand the dramatic transformation of American political history may not be to focus on the recent debate, the news of the day or even the cascade of books about the composition of the modern Democratic Party or the phenomenon of Donald Trump. It may instead be to pick up a copy of a 63-year-old book that you can find on the internet for about the price of this newspaper – or search for it in your local library, if it hasn’t been shipped out to a storage annex or donated to a summertime sidewalk usedbook sale.