Mental health issues need addressed

On Monday we began putting our thoughts together about the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.As we did, our attention was focused on the many men and women in our community that served our country in the armed forces who are no longer with us.

Did Putin wait until Biden was president?

In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not have risked a massive U.S.

Myasthenia Gravis causes skeletal muscles to weaken

Dear Doctors: Can you please talk about myasthenia gravis? Our oldest daughter has been diagnosed with it. She's 33 and lives with her family in another state, but we want to understand what she's dealing with. I just read about Chinese herbs that can be helpful. Do you know if that's true?

Woman debates letting ex-boyfriend attend her son’s graduation

DEAR HARRIETTE: My ex-boyfriend is mad because I did not invite him to my son's graduation. They were close during the four years that we were together, but we broke up two years ago. I am seeing someone else who will be coming to the graduation.

Another version of wealth transfer

When the lights went out across Texas last year, a lot of people and businesses lost money. But one group of companies profited: pipelines.All consumers are now responsible for the $3.6 billion cost of emergency power that we will pay on our electricity bills for years.

Wisdom is words left unspoken

Americans often reflect on Robert Frost's meditation on roads not taken. Today, we might reflect on speeches not given and on truths unspoken.One was from 1963, when President John F.

Becoming heros in their own movies

As a flood of foreigners poured into the United States, a critic called them "generally the most stupid sort of their own nation," and warned darkly, "They will soon outnumber us, (and we) will not, in my opinion, be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.

Husband refuses to go to therapy with spouse

DEAR HARRIETTE: I asked my husband to go to therapy with me, and you would have thought I had told him the Earth is flat. He looked at me incredulously and shook his head. He used to go to therapy before we met -- for years!

Bunion season

It's that time of year again. No, I am not talking about bikini season. I'm talking about bunion season. I did not even know I had a bunion until fairly recently and now, every time I start wearing sandals again, I am reminded that I do.

Eighteen wonderful years

Last night my grandson, Tason Turney, graduated from Clinton High School. Needless to say that made his “pappy,” as he calls me, extremely proud.Those who know Tason understand that he is a man of few words. But I learned that when he does talk, it is worth listening to.