Battle on medication
The warfare on medication is aptly named because the tally of lifeless Individuals and ruined households exceeds 100,000 yearly. For comparability, American casualties in Iraq from 2003 to 2009 totaled about 4,300 lifeless and simply over 30,000 wounded. President Trump was appropriate to prosecute a fight operation in opposition to the Venezuelan authorities of drug honcho Nicholas Maduro. Presidents of each events have been derelict within the effort over a few years to stymie the drug devastation inside our borders.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
Vitality in Mass.
The vitality prices in Massachusetts are by way of the roof, because of the vitality coverage of Gov. Maura Healey. She is hell-bent on spending thousands and thousands of {dollars} on ineffective wind applied sciences. They price an excessive amount of and produce little or no vitality.
The final two Eversource payments have been $255 in December and $357 in January.
Tom McLaughlin
East Bridgewater
Venezuela
Right here’s my two cents: I’m OK getting Maduro out of Venezuela. It’s a a good suggestion, however President Trump advising that the USA take over Venezuela’s oil reserves and run Venezuela’s new authorities will not be so good of an concept.
Tony Meschini
Scituate
Local weather change
Including local weather instability to your price accounting, as Hawaii lawmakers did in 2025, is an affordable native method to a real world downside. Local weather change has vital impacts on the island state’s tourism-based economic system, and it makes excellent sense to include these impacts in Hawaii’s enterprise insurance policies.
It’s simple to disregard rising sea ranges and excessive climate whenever you’re in an air-conditioned workplace in Washington, DC, however coastal erosion, altering rainfall patterns, and intensifying storms are a reality of life for Hawaiians. Vacationers hoping to benefit from the islands’ surroundings and wildlife ought to cooperate with the state’s environmental preservation initiatives, even when it means an additional price included in your resort invoice.
When meals shortages hike our grocery payments, or superstorms injury our roads and infrastructure, these are climate-change prices all of us will bear. The president and his administration ceaselessly downplay the hazards (and certainly the existence) of local weather change of their rhetoric and insurance policies, however denial will not be an choice for Hawaiians, or for any of us.
Warren Senders
Medford
