THE DAY’S OPINION
Relief package incredibly costly and complex, but undeniably needed
By any measure, it is the biggest emergency package ever approved in a single vote. How big? It equals 46% of the $4.8 trillion federal budget.
Small kind acts amid a big crisis
COVID-19 may have us in its grips, but the community is coming together in many ways to try to ensure we all have some bright spots in otherwise bleak days.
Apart physically but watching out for each other
Our heroes have alway been the ones who try to leave no one behind, while looking reality in the face.
One way to beat the coronavirus blues: Pet adoption
Not only might this be a perfect time for people to adopt or foster, it may be a time when saviors are especially needed.
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Keep Canadian drugs out of U.S. medicine cabinets
Drug importation will endanger both American and Canadian lives for little or no savings.
GUEST COMMENTARIES
Economic freeze could control the damage
If no one has any financial obligations, then there is no need for anyone to file for unemployment.
$318,000 shouldn’t be too much to spend to protect the public
"I am disheartened by the lack of support," warns local fire chief who says the failure to repair a bridge slows response times and risks public safety.
Local doctor: COVID-19 exposes weaknesses of health care, leadership
Crisis exposes a health system that is a complex, inefficient, low quality, uncoordinated patchwork of players who not only can’t get their act together during routine times, but become totally unhinged during a crisis.