Preventing addiction by stopping overprescribing
Look at your watch. In the next hour, five Americans will die of a drug overdose.I’ve been working on the issue of drug abuse...
NAMI of Logan and Champaign Counties hold Mental Illness Awareness Walk
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental health condition. One in 5 Americans will be affected by a...
Veterans should be our priority
It’s our duty to ensure that when the men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much for our nation return home, they and...
Boomer Blog: Necessity and paradise
I belatedly realized that last week was National Library Week after my Urbana sister made passing reference to family photographs taken for the UDC...
Egg-cellent question about Easter eggs
Question: My mom is hosting Easter dinner this year and plans to have an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids. Growing up, we always...
Making hard work pay off again
Americans are working longer and harder than ever before, with less and less to show for it. Over the last 40 years, GDP has...
Those darned geese!
If you live in Champaign County then I am sure that you are familiar with the Canada goose. Canada geese are a permanent fixture...
Boomer Blog: Game-Changers
In these unsettled times, small changes in small corners of our lives just seem to add to the confusion. Case in point: last week...
Calorie counts on menus soon to be required of restaurants with many locations
Question: My family likes to eat out several times a month, but I’ve heard recently that many restaurant menu items contain plenty of calories....
Stopping deadly opioids at the border
The opioid addiction epidemic takes far too many lives and destroys too many families across Ohio, and one of the biggest culprits of the...