Next Step Ministries — the collaborative efforts known for several past winters as Code Blue — are taking the proverbial reins of the Saving Grace shelter on Grace Street from the American Rescue Workers. “This agreement allows two organizations that care deeply about our community to ...
“Today represents an exciting step forward in our mission to build health and bridge gaps in care,” Max Houseknecht Jr., president and CEO of River Valley Health said at the ribbon cutting for the new “food pharmacy” operated by the New Love Center and River Valley Health, as reported ...
Japan’s yen has slid back towards 160 to the dollar, despite last month’s extraordinary US-Japanese intervention. Traders are betting that its role as a cheap funding pipeline for global finance will continue. Earlier this month the Trump administration stepped in to help Tokyo stabilise its currency. “Japan’s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor,” Donald Trump explained. More help is likely to be on its way. But this is less a rescue of the yen than an attempt by Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, to preserve a cash spigot that benefits ...
Students are heading back to our region’s schools. And with this yearly occasion, we remind the public to discuss traffic safety with youngsters and, for those who also are motorists, to be careful as children will be along our streets and roads on weekday mornings and afternoons. The ...
I write on August 6 as the invertebrate Republican Senators threaten to confirm as the nation’s top attorney the defense lawyer who (1) saw his client convicted by a unanimous jury for more than thirty felony convictions for trying to write off as legitimate business expenses his hush money payments to a porn star, but (2) nevertheless remains too power-hungry and self-interested to leave behind his role as attorney for the most criminal president since Nixon (who ironically resigned on this date fifty years ago in the face of certain conviction on impeachment charges.) Blanche has ...
A recent article in Tuesday’s edition about the classification of the Little Pine State Park dam is connected, we believe, to our state’s budget process. The article notes that the dam, while not deficient in any way, is subject to inspections and regular reports because, were it to ...
