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Steps to Take to Counter These Troubling Times

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...

Earth Day ’22 and a Call to Keep Cleaning Up

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...

Young People’s Views and Plans, 2021 and Beyond

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...

Money, Money, Money 2021: Over-Extended and in Debt

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,...

September was National Recovery Month: Did You Notice Amid All the Mixed Drug Messages Coming out of the States and D.C.?

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...

Scholar Rick Hess Takes on Anti-Racist Education and the NEA Adopts the CRT

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...
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