by Monty Self | Aug 2, 2022 | Opinion
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from unintended drug overdoses in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a 15% increase over the 91,799 lives lost in 2020, which was a record increase of 30% over 2019. With...
by Monty Self | Jun 30, 2022 | Opinion
The World Health Organization reported on June 23 that there were more than 3,000 cases of Monkeypox, or MPX, in 47 countries. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data reported more than 5,000 cases in 51 countries on June 29, with a majority of cases...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Mar 31, 2022 | News
One in 10 U.S. children experienced food insecurity from 2019 to 2020, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published in late February. Food insecurity is “the limited or uncertain availability of safe and nutritionally adequate foods, or...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 24, 2022 | Opinion
The drug overdose death rate in the U.S. increased 31% between 2019 and 2020, according to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data published on Dec. 30, 2021. There were 91,799 drug overdose deaths (28.3 per 100,000 population) last year, which is up from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 11, 2021 | Opinion
The last few weeks saw a population explosion of baby birds around our house, and that makes us happy. Scruffy cardinals peer at their reflection in the kitchen window. A trio of young house finches chase each other from tree to tree. A whole flock of fledgling...
