DEAR HARRIETTE: I work freelance on a project that uses several teams to complete work. I was asked to provide creative guidance to one of the teams, and it is proving to be difficult. These people do not believe they need to answer to me.
CLINTON DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL
Ed Janning was recognized for the second time in seven years as “Kiwanian of the Year” by the Clinton Kiwanis Club. He was shown receiving his plaque, honoring him for the club year 1991-92, from outgoing president David Davis at the 66th annual installation of officers.
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DEAR HARRIETTE: I have some important things to discuss with my husband about our future, but I find that I am either too busy or too nervous to bring them up. We have been unhappy for a long time. I have done my best to deal with his grumpiness and overall malaise, but I am tired of it. Nothing I do seems to make a difference. He just stays negative.
There’s a new report from NBC News that President Joe Biden has told a confidant – the Rev. Al Sharpton, of all people – that he will run for reelection in 2024. It’s not terribly well sourced, attributing the information to “an official of Sharpton’s National Action Network” who told NBC what Sharpton had told him. In any event, the story says Biden told Sharpton, as the two posed for pictures after a White House meeting with civil rights leaders on Sept. 2: “I’m going to do it again. I’m going.”
Dear Doctors: A family friend is suddenly on hospice care because of esophageal cancer, which has spread to his lungs and liver. The thing is, he never even knew he had it. Other than getting the hiccups and losing some weight, he was fine. What causes this cancer? How common is it?
SENSE & SENSITIVITY
I used to think self-styled “progressives” and Black Lives Matter activists had coined the dumbest political slogan of the 21st century: “Defund the Police.” Democratic strategist James Carville called it “the three worst words ever in the English language.” Not for nothing has President Joe Biden gone out of his way to declare, as reported by The New York Times’ Charles Blow, that “when it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not ‘defund the police.’ It’s ‘fund the police.’” Ordinary citizens may have mixed feelings about cops, but everybody wants help fast when they dial 911 – a point so elementary only the smuggest kind of intellectual could fail to understand it.
If you want to help save the North Atlantic right whale, you should give up eating Atlantic lobster. This is according to the advocacy group Seafood Watch, which warns that the ropes used for lobster fishing can “entangle critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.” With just a few hundred whales left, they face extinction unless changes happen quickly. While efforts are underway to create a “whale-safe lobster” standard to identify crustaceans harvested with ropes, the best bet to help now is to avoid or severely limit your lobster intake.