Point of View

Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.

Dear Hope Nation, I have COVID-19. It sucks.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Do whatever you can to prevent yourself from getting it, unless you like losing your sense of taste and smell, feeling sore all over, coughing, being chilled and needing to sleep 18 hours a day. If you’re not vaccinated, please get vaccinated. If you’re not wearing a mask indoors in areas where community transmission is high, please start. If you don’t wash your hands regularly, please do so. I don’t want you or anyone else to feel the way I do right now.

Lazy Brain Days: Sometimes success is measured by letting go

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, February 1, 2021

The answer is not to work harder no matter what, not to push through despite your emotional and physical exhaustion. Rather, we’ve attempted to turn to our Lazy Brain in an effort to set new expectations, to create an environment appropriate to the time in which we live.

Life In The Streets: Reality of Racism

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, October 6, 2020

I find it difficult enough being a man, but it feels twice as hard living as a Black man. About 20-30 days ago I got evicted from my apartment. No warning, no heads-up. No clue that this was brewing behind my back. Ever since, I’ve been struggling hard, man. Yes, you read that correctly. During quarantine, working father of two got evicted.

COVID-19 is saving lives: Here’s how

Monday, September 23, 2024Saturday, March 21, 2020

Every day an estimated 11,500 people – people vulnerable with respiratory illnesses and preexisting conditions – die from outdoor air pollution. Yet life continues to go on while carbon emissions continue to be pumped into our atmosphere every single day, killing tens of thousands of people across the world.