Dear Abby: My dad had a stroke. My siblings and I (there are three of us) needed someone to care for him, since we all work full time. I asked my stepson, “Miles,” who was living in Tennessee, if he could help us out by moving to Washington state and caring for Dad during the day (Miles works nights), given that Dad needed 24/7 care. My siblings and I didn’t want to put him into a nursing home.
The myths — or, rather, convenient lies — that some politicians keep circulating about the U.S.-Mexico border have resulted in another disappointing congressional session for immigration reform. Instead of crafting much-needed solutions to address the fate of young immigrant “Dreamers,” the backlog of cases in immigration courts or any of the myriad problems caused by outdated immigration laws, policymakers spent most of their time wrangling over Title 42, a public health order invoked during the COVID-19 pandemic to manage border crossings.
Football and national identity in Argentina fused after the Albiceleste won the World Cup in 1986 with Diego Maradona. The country’s democracy, recently restored after decades of coups and murderous army rule, celebrated Maradona’s rise from a shantytown to almost single-handedly defeating the rest of the world. The burst of countrywide pride, however, belied Argentina’s fall: it began the 20th century as the seventh-richest nation in the world, but had dropped to the 70th place by 1990.
Abraham Hamadeh, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Arizona, repeatedly promised to pursue criminal charges against “those who worked to rob President Trump in the rigged 2020 election.” The 31-year-old built his campaign around baseless allegations of election malfeasance and posted an image of handcuffs on social media while vowing that “a day of reckoning” was coming.
As I packed away some Christmas decorations the other day I came across one that I wanted to leave out all year round. The decoration featured the word joy and I thought that word isn’t just relegated to Christmas.
Grayson County commissioners voted unanimously to replace Justice of the Peace Larry Atherton during Tuesday’s meeting of the group. Atherton retired in the middle of his current term as JP in Precinct 1.
Sherman officials may soon be working on ways the city can help incentivize and encourage the growth and development that are lacking in portions of the city, including South Sherman. As the city continues to grow, the term food desert has been used in recent times to describe areas where there is not easy access to healthy and affordable food.
Dear Dr. Roach: Is it true that a person over 55 years of age can have bone density problems? Does drinking milk and taking calcium with vitamin D help with this condition? Also, some people take oral cortisone for arthritis. Doesn’t this make the bones more susceptible to bone breakage? Some doctors don’t feel men can have bone density problems.
A powerful tool in helping you keep your resolutions comes in the language that you use in making the resolution and in how you talk to yourself about them as you work on them. The California Schools Resource Center recommends maintaining positive talk through three steps: swapping out positive for negative, eliminating negative words from your thoughts and going easy on yourself.
A Silsbee man has pleaded guilty to federal child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Michael Joseph Fontenot, 50, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S.