In Pinellas County, Florida, Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA) has been a beacon of hope for victims of domestic violence since 1977. Last month, their mission extended its reach as CASA embarked on an expansion into Marion County, addressing a pressing need highlighted by Sheriff Billy Woods. Woods expressed the gravity of the situation, stating, Read More…
Many of our political leaders and elitist institutions are corrupt beyond comprehension. They are seeking an authoritarian reformation, a “great economic reset” and they are triggering multiple conflicts around the world. We saw the mask come off during covid. These people are not merely misguided; they are monsters, and they are hungry. It’s not beyond Read More…
RESPONSE • My sister in law told me her cousins in North Carolina got a winter coat for their dog when it snowed. A caring gesture, but they had a SAINT BERNARD. RESPONSE We use to have a Samoyed. The neighbors called the ASPCA and complained when the saw her out laying across a snow Read More…
Tommy Trenchard for NPR 26-year-old Zainab Sankoh in a shack at the Kingtom dump site in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A self-described “hustler,” Sankoh used to send money home to support her family and her young daughter in a village in the south of the country. Now, she spends almost all her money on kush. “My Read More…
This column is the second installment in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the first installment, about the trials of junior year, here. A while back, I sat in the aggressive discomfort of the bleachers at my youngest daughter’s high school basketball game and Read More…
Lindsay Whitehurst The e-commerce giant eBay will pay $59 million in a settlement with the Justice Department over thousands of pill press machines sold on the the platform. The machines can be used to manufacture counterfeit pills that look just like prescription pills but instead can be laced with substances like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid drug that is largely Read More…
