VERDUN, Quebec – Is it time to Be Like Joe?
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have been seeing a guy for the past four months, and while things started well, I’m still unsure of where I stand in his life. We live in different cities, so our relationship has been long-distance, making it even harder to figure out what’s happening between us.
Donald Trump is making immigration a major theme of his campaign of fear and grievance, and his prime example is Springfield, Ohio – 45 miles west of Columbus, the state capital. There, he claims, newcomers from Haiti are stealing and eating local pets.
My husband, Peter, had never had a cat before we adopted Felix, and Felix is taking full advantage of this.
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – In the days before Vice President Kamala Harris came here, on Friday the 13th, some Trump supporters in this northeastern Pennsylvania town speculated that she would have trouble attracting a big crowd to her rally.
Dear Doctors: A few weeks ago, one side of my dad’s face became paralyzed. He couldn’t close his left eye, and the left side of his mouth wouldn’t work. We thought it was a stroke, but the ER doctors said it is Bell’s palsy. They said it eventually goes away. What causes it?
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have recently become part of a new social cooking group, and while I have been enjoying the sense of community and shared passion for food, I have noticed that some members have been sharing my recipes and personal cooking techniques online without my consent, just changing up details like switching basil leaves to onions. While I appreciate their enthusiasm and excitement about my creations, I value my privacy when it comes to my recipes. I would like to find a way to address this issue with the group without making it a big deal.
Being of Irish Catholic descent, I’ve always been basically pro-immigrant. All eight of my great-grandparents were born in that country, and my family taught me to consider myself “Irish” before American.
• Does your smartphone have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos on it? Storing all of those photos “in the cloud” has a big environmental impact. The energy required to store, manage and back up your images on servers is quite significant. In fact, a recent study showed the average person takes just under 1,000 photos a year, which is equal to 10.6 kg of C02 emissions a year. Multiply that by the billions of people with smartphones, and it adds up to a lot.