Dear Doctors: I am 45 years old and have sudden sensorineural hearing loss that is significant. There is no known cause. I’m told that the only option now or in the future is a cochlear implant. How do they work? How do I know if I might be a candidate for this type of treatment?
It has now been more than two weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee. It’s always hard to get a quick handle on public reaction to a huge event like that, but after a couple of weeks, the news has had time to sink in with voters, and it’s time to start looking at some new polling.
Some of my best friends are cat people. I’m particularly indebted to our neighbor Laura, a self-described “crazy cat lady,” who took in Albert, the most unusual feline I’ve known.
Richard Hauser wanted three days off – the weekend plus the following Monday. It seemed a reasonable request. The strains of being in the White House counsel’s office during the Watergate scandal were wearing on him, and the prospect of a few days away from the troubles of Richard Nixon and the crisis that was enveloping the capital seemed inviting. But Fred Buzhardt, his boss and the man attempting to steer the 37th president through the troubled waters of Washington, made it clear: Be here Monday.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I recently had a confusing encounter with a guy I met on Bumble. We hit it off during our conversations, and he seemed like a great match – respectful, attentive and genuinely interested. However, things took an unexpected turn when I coincidentally bumped into him at a coffee shop in a city neither of us lives in. To my surprise, he was with his exgirlfriend. I approached them, said hi and noticed that he seemed uncomfortable and stiff. He said they were having coffee and catching up.
Ihaven’t gone camping in a tent in a long time.
One critical concept has emerged in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump: Respect.
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
To the editor: It is very disheartening to see our nation becoming more like the former Soviet Union rather than the bastion of freedom I knew it to be in earlier years.
Ahandful of Republicans have referred to Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, as a “DEI hire.” They were essentially saying that President Joe Biden picked Harris to be his running mate in 2020 because she was a person of color. Democrats have, of course, pushed back, calling the phrase “extremely offensive and dehumanizing,” in the words of former U.N. Ambassador and Obama and Biden White House insider Susan Rice. Some Republicans, like former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, pushed back, too, calling the accusation “totally stupid and dumb.”