The sad, sad state of adolescence

To hear people tell it, the kids are definitely not all right. According to The Washington Post, there’s “a crisis in American girlhood.”

TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1861, a Texas state convention voted 166-8 in favor of a measure to secede from the Union.In 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and more than 700 others were arrested at a protest in Selma, Alabama.In 2003, the U.S. space shuttle...

Doctors recently studied the connection with caffeine, coffee, and migranes

Dear Doctors: I am 69 years old and have two cups of coffee each morning.Once or twice a week, I wake up with a dull ache at the back of my head, toward the left side. It always goes away with my first cup of coffee. Is this caffeine withdrawal?

It’s not too late to reach out to friend’s dad

DEAR HARRIETTE: I feel so bad. A friend of mine asked me to talk to her dad about a project he is working on. I agreed right away, but then I got distracted. First, I got sick with whatever bug is making its rounds. Then I got so busy playing catch-up at work that I totally forgot.

It all started for Carter in Iowa

It was a different time. The Ruan Center in Des Moines, with 35 floors, had just become Iowa’s tallest building. Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, home of the Iowa State Cyclones, had just opened.

No tolerance for intolerance impulse

The intolerance impulse from the left is as odious as it is from the right.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies are wrong for banning books that, as I’ve written, “feature characters who don’t conform to a conservative Christian straight white view of America.”

We had what I called a ‘chia pet moment’

You know, since I've been eating these chia seeds, I've noticed my beard has gotten heavier.'My husband, Peter, was talking to my father downstairs. I sat up at attention.This comment about the chia seeds was news to me.

Overworked employee feels she needs a break

DEAR HARRIETTE: I work in a highstress environment with an unreasonable boss. She often makes us work through lunch, sometimes without even having time to go to the bathroom.It's crazy, but when we are in production, she expects all hands on deck — no matter what.

Texas death row inmate shouldn’t be executed

Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas parole board should commute Andre Thomas’ sentence.Thomas, the Texas death row inmate who is so mentally ill that he gouged out both of his eyes and ate one of them, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in six weeks.That should not be allowed to happen.Gov. Greg...

Reader concerned about SQ 820 pertaining to recreational marijuana

Dear Editor: Recreational marijuana is coming up for a vote on March 7.All we hear from major media outlets is how much money the State will receive from taxes on the “legalized” drug.