Pharmaceutical manufacturers have launched an all-out assault on a vital drug discount program that patients depend on for their medicines, and lives are at stake. The 340B program was created by Congress in the 1990s to give safety-net providers access to reduced pricing they could not negotiate on their own. Republicans and Democrats alike support the […]

“Debt is the worst poverty.” — Thomas Fuller, 17th-century English churchman and historian No reporter asks about it. The candidates don’t talk about it. Are voters even concerned about it? The unmentioned “it” is the national debt, which days ago reached $27 trillion and continues to grow like an untreated tumor on the economic body […]

Halloween, like so much else, will be different this year from previous years, but it also offers an analogy that can be applied to the current presidential campaign. The purpose of Halloween masks is to hide the identity of the person wearing them. They are also supposed to be scary. Inversely, as I see it, […]

The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle. The ratio of progressive outrage over the nomination of federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to supposed reasons that the U.S. Senate shouldn’t confirm her is completely out of whack – there’s a surfeit of the former and almost none of the latter. Barrett […]

Air travel is in flux. At the beginning of the pandemic, photos of nearly empty planes circulated as the Transportation Security Administration hit record-low passenger numbers in the spring. By summer, flights were going viral for the opposite reason: They were so packed that one even inspired a U.S. senator to propose a bill to […]

With Election Day fast approaching, and early voting taking place now in a number of states, the quiz below from the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the presidency and presidential elections. 1. According to the U.S. Constitution, a president must have lived in the United States for […]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year is unlike any that has come before in over four decades in our work to end domestic abuse and violence. Along with everyone else in our communities, we were stunned by the overwhelming power of a virus to instantly impact and cause us to focus our efforts […]