by Carol A. Josel | May 16, 2022 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, Quotable Quotes
Back in 1949, Mental Health America made May Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness and understanding. Attitudes have certainly changed/improved since then, but all is not well nowadays, not at all. Indeed, one headline after another speaks to our...
by Carol A. Josel | Apr 18, 2022 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact
It’s a big deal, a very big deal that has now tied together the environment, climate change, even diet all under the Earth Day umbrella and its 3Rs, reduce, reuse, recycle. Just this week came Time Magazine’s “Earth, Inc.” and Nutrition Action’s “The Planet Lover’s...
by Carol A. Josel | Dec 10, 2021 | Articles, In The News, Interesting Facts
Mary Martin’s Peter Pan sang about perpetual youth, boldly shouting, “I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. Not me! Not I!” seemingly speaking for our kids today. Makes one wonder: “Will they ever grow up?” Adulting actually became Grammar Girl’s 2014 Word...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 15, 2021 | Articles, Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Quotable Quotes
Biden’s on-the-table $3.5+ trillion “Build Back Better” so-called infrastructure package expands the child tax credit, provides paid family leave, an expansion of ObamaCare, even a hefty electric vehicle tax credit. Lots of freebies and not just for the needy,...
by Carol A. Josel | Oct 1, 2021 | Articles, In The News, It’s a Fact
Recent preliminary data from the CDC shows that there more than 5,200 overdose deaths in Pennsylvania alone in 2020, 16% more than in 2019. Nationally, the news is even grimmer: 93,000 Americans died from overdoses in 2020, a 29% more than 2019’s 72,000. And the...
by Carol A. Josel | Aug 15, 2021 | Commentary, In The News, It’s a Fact, Making Education News
Writes Rick Hess, American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and Education Policy Studies director: Media is ablaze with coverage of the heated resistance to ‘anti-racist’ education and Critical Race Theory (CRT). Much of the discourse, at least in education...