rgallabrese@heraldstaronline.com
Throw out Wednesday’s late-season snow and the wintry temperatures that lasted through Friday morning, and it’s time to resume looking toward late spring and summer.
And that made Wednesday’s presentation to the Steubenville Rotary Club all the more timely.
Members of the club, which celebrated its 100th anniversary on April 1, had the opportunity to hear from Juliette Olshock, the sustainable land care program coordinator at Phipps Conservatory. While the discussion happened through Zoom, as has been the case for much of the past year, the club plans to resume in-person meetings with a video conference streaming option in May.
Andrew P. Napolitano
WASHINGTON A colleague recently asked me if I approved of Big Tech censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms. My colleague believes as do I in natural rights, minimal government and that owners of private property can use it as they see fit. We both condemned the Big Tech censorship. Then he asked if the government could regulate these platforms. I offered that it could not.
These questions arose from the reported efforts by Facebook to bar from its platforms those who wish to offer scientific, political or cultural arguments against mass vaccinations. Many of these arguments are sound and fascinating. Nearly all are provocative. They are the essence of free speech. Should those who offer them be silenced on a platform used by billions of folks?
Family Recovery Center publicist
In a perfect world, agencies like Family Recovery Center would not exist because there would be no need for them. In a perfect world people would have all the right skills in their life-coping skills toolbox. Everyone would have good common sense and practice loving kindness to each other. Everyone would have inner peace and contentedness. In a perfect world no one would self-harm.
Last week the Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network reported that stimulants and opioids used together are causing a rise in deaths per CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) data. The article states that, in 2019,76 percent of cocaine-related overdose deaths in the U.S. also involved opioids.
editorial@newsandsentinel.com
“Better living through chemistry” was a marketing slogan used by the DuPont company in the 1930s. Chemical companies continue to make good use of advertising to convince Americans that we need their products. However, these companies neglect to warn us that there are tradeoffs for these so-called conveniences.
For years DuPont was aware of the health effects of a perfluoroalkyl substance [PFAS] or C8. It was used to make hundreds of products including stain resistant carpets and Teflon pans. The 2019 film “Dark Waters” tells the story of how Parkersburg, W.Va., residents were exposed to C8 through their drinking water. This “forever” compound is so prevalent that, according to a national study, it is in the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans.
jkiaski@heraldstaronline.com
I don’t think I’ve ever awakened on my birthday to discover that big fluffy snowflakes are falling and accumulating on the ground.
Especially since my birthday is April 21, and snow is generally out of the forecast at that point.
It might be muddy, moist and sweatshirt springy kind of weather, but blustery and snowy? And a freeze watch for good measure? Uhh, no, not as a rule.
But this is Ohio, and you’ve gotta’ love the Buckeye State.
As one friend so aptly noted on a Facebook post about the weather being one day this way and then the exact opposite the next “Mother Nature is going through menopause. She was hot and now look!”