Curt Fredrikson News Today

Your typical American knows how much it costs to care for their family.

Government intervention is necessary so that lives are protected before pharmaceutical profits, a reader from South Shore writes.

Donald Trump showed as president he did not want people telling him what he wanted to do was illegal. The country needs to be prepared if he returns to the White House, one letter writer says.

There is drug-related crime because there is money to be made in dealing drugs. There is money in it because drugs are illegal. Make them legal, and you drain the money and the motivation for violence from the system.

If we could be a little less convenience-addicted and a bit more organized, we could reduce the unnecessary flow of plastic into our environment.

This is the United States, where there is never a time when a letter about mass shootings is not timely.

If American democracy continues, we can fix the rest of our problems. If it disappears, we will no longer be a free country and the rest won’t matter.

It’s likely that somebody who would not get vaccinated is occupying a bed I might need to stay alive. They can die for their freedom if they want, but they have no right to make me die for it.

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