The holiday season is a time for gathering, celebrating, relaxing and enjoying the company of loved ones. However, we also are in viral respiratory season as both influenza and RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) are surging with COVID-19 continuing in the background. It remains important to p…
The Republican onslaught against abortions continues in various states. However, the expansion of chemical abortions likely means that governmental prohibitions will never be completely successful. A more promising approach might be to drastically reduce demand.
Passed by both political parties and signed into law in 1990, the federal civil rights law, the Americans with Disabilities, was a major achievement toward equality in terms of accessibility for people with disabilities regardless of their age, skin color, or other identities.
Our society is in deep trouble. We have rising crime including sexual assaults, mass shootings including school shootings, over 100,000 drug overdose deaths per year in the U.S., violence in schools, and a general falling behind in educational levels in schools across America. This is direct…
William Shakespeare wrote in 1602: “What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, In form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is …
Reviewing the antagonisms that fracture our country, commentators explain that we lack “common ground,” a circumstance in which people share interests, convictions, motivations. Commentators assure us that common ground generates trust and fosters group effort, but they offer little assuranc…
Our support for Ukraine is honorable, but we need to remind ourselves of history and the debacle in Vietnam.
Thank you, Daily Reflector, for Sunday’s well-written article on the Greenville-ENC Alliance. Like many readers, I was surprised to learn that an organization financially supported by so many publicly funded entities is not subject to North Carolina open meeting laws. The DR writer neither d…
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Jim Jordan’s recent, notable, inane attempt at a clever alliteration reveals so much of what we need to know about the fear-focused, radical element of the Republican Party. “God. Guns. Gas stoves.” The entire Republican platform appears to be fueled by hate, anger and fear emanating from do…
Among the many strengths of the community often referred to as “west Greenville” is the dedicated staff of the C.M. Eppes Recreation Center at 400 Nash St. They provide space for meetings and special family and community events, even on the weekends.
I urge Gov. Cooper to do something to protect LGBTQ+ people from right-wing extremists.
On Jan. 21, a 76-year-old wife in Florida fatally shot her husband in his hospital bed. He was terminally ill with cancer and was too weak to do what he desired and planned. After hours of barricading herself in his room, she was eventually detained. Although this is classified as murder and…
Why is there so much discontent with and open hostility toward our public schools? What would cause more than 300,000 public school teachers to leave the field between 2020 and 2022? (Wall Street Journal report). The teachers themselves site stress and burnout related to safety concerns, int…
The late comedian Tim Wilson had a comedy routine about his Uncle B.S. It was his opinion that every family has one braggadocious relative that would insert himself into important events. For example, his Uncle B.S. drove Rosa Parks’ bus, was a co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald at the book depo…
In June of 2022, my father, Van Harrington Jr., died from complications of frontotemporal degeneration/dementia (FTD). When he passed, I was 40-years-old, but I lost him shortly after graduating from college. After three misdiagnoses because he was “too young” for dementia to be taken into a…
I am grateful for your page’s attention to domestic violence over the years, and there is good news many readers may have missed: Recently, Congress passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and PUMP Act, both of which will help prevent domestic violence and help pregnant or lactating domesti…
Wonder why the U.S. is in such a mess? Well, here is a primer on how to ruin a country.
I feel sure that many citizens who know basic right/wrong are wondering why Trump, plus many of his enablers, aren’t in jail. The lip service from Attorney General Merrick Garland that “no one is above the law” is a crock full of it. Talk is cheap. If we want to, we can take our heads out of…
The cartoon “Family Circus” by Jeff Keane appears in the DR. The cartoon’s charm derives from its depiction of young children responding to their new world. A recent panel shows a little boy entering a room suddenly darkened by his sister at a light switch. He says, “Hey! Who turned on the d…
A recent letter by one of the normal liberal contributors identifies seven Republican House members viewed as extreme, with no redeeming qualities.