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Despite a worldwide pandemic, a Washington native physician recently took the opportunity to travel outside the U.S. to provide medical services as part of a mission program. Dr. Lindsey Van Duyn of Washington County Hospital and Clinics spent a week in Haiti last month to serve in a clinic in the town of Gramothe. Van Duyn has done previous mission work in Honduras and the Dominican Republic, so she had long been interested in going to Haiti. She says this clinic is open about five times a year, “We really didn’t know what to expect, so you are essentially a general practice provider an...

During day two of a trial in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law, Senate Republicans highlighted supportive comments uttered by Democrats when the General Assembly approved the law in 2018. “Lawyers for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a left-wing legal organization, have attempted to characterize the law and those who backed it as ‘racist,’ even though the law was sponsored by an African American Democrat,” according to a news release from Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus. “They’ve also alleged, improbably, that the bill’s backers, including ...

Trump’s presidency is over. So are many relationships. The people I interviewed generally thought that if Trump had never entered politics, their relationships wouldn’t have deteriorated as they did. They may be correct, but this obscures a longer-running trend that seems to be fueling relationship-ending political disputes. As political scientists have documented, over the past few decades, Americans’ party affiliations have become more strongly correlated with other aspects of who they are, such as their race, their religion, and where they live. As a result, certain political beliefs...

Why ‘Cuomo’s death order’ didn’t really cause NY’s nursing home carnage. A reality check Updated Mar 04, 2021; Posted Mar 04, 2021 Dr. Howard Zucker, left, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, listens to Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss the state's preparedness for the spread of coronavirus during a news conference, Monday, March 2, 2020 in New York.Mark Lennihan | AP Photo Facebook Share Syracuse, N.Y. – To hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s critics tell it, March 25 is a date that will live in infamy. On that date, Cuomo’s health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, sent a ...

A Passion for Cooking  The Hogans joined the restaurant industry later in their lives after more than 20 years in construction. While Matt had briefly worked in a restaurant earlier in his life, this would be Rachelle’s first outing into that world.  “If you would have told me 30 years ago when we got married, like, you’d be running a restaurant in the same town you bought your first house, I would be, like, ‘No way.’ I had never even worked in a restaurant,” Rachelle Hogan says.  But it might be misleading to say Hogan had no experience with food. She grew up in a Menonite fam...