To the editor, The delayed federal farm bill should include increased public funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who aren’t familiar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It has the potential to dramatically reduce the suffering we inflict on animals, as well as our greenhouse-gas emissions and pandemic risk….
Editor’s note: This letter to the editor was submitted for the Nov. 09 edition of The Havana Herald but was not published due to an editor’s error. Dear editor, Serving the Country was a duty I did not hesitate to accept. It was an honor to contribute to making the Country safe for my family,…
We don’t need to look any further than the vehicle speeding up behind us or passing us at above the speed limit to see that we have a huge problem with appreciating the importance of “rule of law” in our country. Law, and its abeyance, is the glue that has held us together for a…
Everyone is an individual with different opinions about everything. I have always been and forever will be an “out of the box” thinker who believes that it’s OK to “not know”, and who enjoys thinking about the reality of things without pinning reasons on an imaginary figure (God). I worry that a lot of our…
Will Americans ever recognize the danger that is the neglected male child who grows up to take back what he thinks is owed to him by society by slaughtering innocent people? Numerous and increasing mass shootings and lack of immediately effective action by legislators at all levels is a very sorry tale. America must do…
I’ve been thinking about how America has reached the point where our beloved democracy itself is threatened, and to where a past president is charged with thirty-seven felony counts, with more surely to come. What caused us to fail so badly? Maybe foremost is a decades-long slide in teaching children to love the Constitution and…
Ron DeSantis, with the consent of colluding legislators, is rapidly expanding his push towards a full-on authoritarian administrative state in Florida, a push that clearly threatens our beloved democracy and way of life. Best evidence is the law to go into effect on July 1 of this year that would force doctors to ask patients…
I am writing to thank Havana-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Generosity throughout contributed to a successful shoebox gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child. Across the U.S., the project collected over 9.3 million shoebox gifts in…
