Last summer, Julio Carmona started the process of weaning himself off a fully remote work schedule by showing up to the office once a week. The new hybrid schedule at his job at a state agency in Stratford, Connecticut, still enabled him to spend time cooking dinner for his family and taking his teenage daughter to basketball.
A major travesty of corn-growing in the Midwest is the six months or more of barren ground between crops. The land used for growing corn here is more open to wind and water erosion than the burned over lands in the western United States, where at least they recover quickly by growing some plants.
Angela Housley was halfway through her pregnancy when she learned the fetus was developing without parts of its brain and skull and would likely die within hours or days of birth, if it survived that long.
Dear Amy: My younger sister is 54. She has been divorced three times and has a teenage daughter.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has interviewed nearly 1,000 people. But the nine-member panel has yet to talk to the two most prominent players in that day’s events — former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Want more nurses and teachers? Start with civic education. Late last month, the Kansas Board of Regents (BOR) released recommendations to the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) calling for high school students to take four math courses prior to graduation, instead of the current three. In addition, the BOR called for four units of English, validating the current standard. They also encouraged more high school students to study computer science and take dual-enrollment courses, in which high school students earn college credit for transfer. Finally, they want schools to help students complete the FAFSA form for federal student aid. These are ambitious goals, but what happened to civic education?
Dear Amy: After many years of exchanging gifts with my brother-in-law and his wife, my husband and I decided we didn’t want to do it anymore. We are trying to get rid of things. We have too much stuff! The gifts were getting more extravagant and some we didn’t even like or use (and gifts we had given them ended up in their garage sale, so this was mutual). It was sucking the joy out of the holidays.
To the editor: Our “friend and Rep. Pat Proctor” has done it again.
John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis. The chief justice has already ordered an investigation of the leak this week of a draft opinion suggesting the court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion nationwide. What comes next could further test Roberts’ leadership of a court where his vote already appears less crucial in determining the outcome in contentious cases.
Even though mom’s been gone for years, there’s always a part of me that feels an empty void when we all get together on Mother’s Day. A long-standing tradition, the day is set aside for just the girls.