Letter
Megan Bachelder
View from Away: California gun laws are helping lower suicide rate
Gun violence and mass shootings are the focus of attention in Congress, and rightly so. But the news that suicide rates are continuing to rise in the United States adds to the need for the nation to establish stricter gun safety laws. Researchers at Ohio State University studied 453,577 U.S. residents aged 25 to 65 […]
Our View: Small change to suicide hotline would make a big difference
Changing the number to 988, as the FCC has proposed, would get more people the help they need.
View from Away: Commerce secretary is nothing but ethical trouble
Why is Wilbur Ross still on the public payroll? The commerce secretary’s latest offense is the serious allegation that he ordered professionals at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, upon threat of losing their jobs, to contradict their expert assessments in order to echo rather than contradict President Trump’s errant claims that Hurricane Dorian might […]
Our View: Kent State’s thoughtless action sets back women’s sports
The UMaine and Temple field hockey teams were treated like second-class athletes.