Warfare on medication
The struggle on medication is aptly named because the tally of useless Individuals and ruined households exceeds 100,000 yearly. For comparability, American casualties in Iraq from 2003 to 2009 totaled about 4,300 useless and simply over 30,000 wounded. President Trump was right 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
Power in Mass.
The power prices in Massachusetts are by the roof, because of the power coverage of Gov. Maura Healey. She is hell-bent on spending tens of millions of {dollars} on ineffective wind applied sciences. They price an excessive amount of and produce little or no power.
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 just isn’t so good of an thought.
Tony Meschini
Scituate
Local weather change
Including local weather instability to your price accounting, as Hawaii lawmakers did in 2025, is an inexpensive native method to a real international downside. Local weather change has important impacts on the island state’s tourism-based economic system, and it makes good sense to include these impacts in Hawaii’s enterprise insurance policies.
It’s straightforward to disregard rising sea ranges and excessive climate while you’re in an air-conditioned workplace in Washington, DC, however coastal erosion, altering rainfall patterns, and intensifying storms are a truth 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 charge included in your lodge 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 incessantly downplay the risks (and certainly the existence) of local weather change of their rhetoric and insurance policies, however denial just isn’t an choice for Hawaiians, or for any of us.
Warren Senders
Medford
