The Providence (R.I.) Journal, Feb. 6: When it comes to their children’s health, most parents are highly concerned about making the best choices. But a new and deplorable anti-vaccine movement has helped fan an outbreak of measles, potentially far more dangerous to children than time-tested vaccines. Parents who eschew vaccination for the sake of their […]

Recently, I attended a funeral service. A coworker had lost her 17-year-old son to cancer. Many of our work team was there. We wanted to support her during this traumatic time of such great loss. We all prayed together, cried together, we hugged each and consoled our coworker/friend. When I looked around the room I […]

How often do you find yourself thinking about the people in your community who work to save lives? Most likely, not often enough. Recently our family was faced with a medical emergency that none of us saw coming and because of the dedicated, professional individuals working that day and the days that followed, we survived […]

When Bushes run for president, they portray themselves as more caring, more gentle and more compassionate than their sometimes heartless and harshly ideological fellow Republicans. It worked for George H.W. Bush in 1988, it worked for George W. Bush in 2000, and now Jeb Bush is preparing to give it another go in 2016. The […]

I was hanging out with some friends and people I just met recently discussing a wide variety of topics including Governor LePage, efficient use of taxpayer money, employee recruiting, newspapers, etc. Then someone suggested to me that the Journal Tribune write stories about some of these really important issues in the communities it serves. The […]

Sometimes it is not what the politicians talk about that matters; it is what they don’t talk about that is also important. Take, for example, the Republican response to the President’s State of the Union address by Republican ingenue Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA, on January 20: “As a mother, a soldier, and a newly-elected senator […]

To preserve who we are as Americans, nothing is more important for our students than to know how, as constitutionally protected citizens, they are distinct from people of other countries. In an attempt to assure this will happen in our schools, The New York Times recently reported that, last month, “Arizona became the first state […]

There are no shortage of reasons to get nervous during the middle slog of a New England winter. This is gut-check time, when our nervous systems are assaulted by a smorgasbord of threats. Slippery sidewalks, car-burying blizzards ”“ even walking outside to collect the mail is a pain in the tookus, what with temperatures that […]