At 11 a.m. March 23 the president signed the spending package approved by the House (March 22) and by the Senate just today (March 23) a few hours before being signed into law.
In the March 6 edition of The Daily Courier, Ron Tatar (“Women’s sports doomed?” letter) reminds us of the “conundrum that will plague women for a long time to come” – the fact that men who identify as women can compete (unfairly) in women’s sports.
March 29 is Vietnam Veterans Day, chosen as National Vietnam War Veterans Day because on March 29, 1973, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was disbanded and the last U.S. combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam.
Rain-laden clouds are pressing down on the green hillsides across the street from my studio window. I’m relaxing with green herbal tea and pecan sandies, contemplating the apparent civil discontent with some of City Hall’s occupants.
I was recently saddened to learn of the Feb. 20 death of Dennis Spicknell, along with his sister, in a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 17 near Anthem.
It happens all the time. Head-on collisions caused by impatient drivers who think they can get away with passing in no-passing zones unscathed, until the one fateful day that they don’t. The result is devastating.