When I first started taking care of children and adolescents as a pediatrician in the late 1980s, obesity in childhood was rarely seen as a medical issue. Many colleagues...
Three years after the United States logged its first case of COVID-19, the pandemic has slipped off the front pages and seemingly out of public consciousness.
Kids are ba...
Of course Alec Baldwin shouldn’t receive special treatment because he’s famous. He shouldn’t be treated, as the district attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., put it, as if he were...
Still keeping that New Year’s resolution to get healthy? Take a hike.
Although Butler County awoke to a fresh coat of snow Monday, our winter for the most part has been u...
A lot of well-deserved concern is spreading across academia over students’ use of ChatGPT to write their class essays and do their homework. The OpenAI.com program is so ...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden notches two years in office today. That represents 730 days since his inauguration — and a whole lot of other numbers as well.
The story...
The recurring farce of lifting the U.S. government debt ceiling began again last week. As total debt surpasses $31.4 trillion — the current statutory limit — the Treasury...
The Humane Society and VOICe are to be commended for their joint effort to provide asylum for the pets of people escaping an abusive situation.
Cari Ciancio, executive d...
After reading about the new billboard on Route 422, my initial response was to simply ignore it. However, Mr. Placek’s response that no one has complained made me realize...
I support the viewpoint of the freedom of speech on the billboard.
As for the swastika, to me it was a reminder of what happened in Germany when the people there kept sil...
