Opinion

July 10 Stardust

25 YEARS AGO (1995)

DEAR ABBY: Man’s unsure mental health clouds vision of the future

DEAR ABBY: I recently started dating again after ending a very difficult marriage. To say I am guarding my heart for fear of getting hurt would be an understatement.

Wellness in 2020

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The focus on wellness has changed dramatically in 2020 with COVID-19 taking center stage. Prevention is the primary strategy for dealing with any respiratory virus, so the first steps include: staying away from crowds, avoiding the spread by wearing masks, washing hands, and sanitizing frequently touched surfaces.

Protect Montana from ballot harvesting

In 2018, paid political operatives in North Carolina went door-to-door, enticing voters to hand over their unsealed absentee ballots. The operatives then altered the unfinished ballots to support Republican candidates and failed to return ballots that already supported Democratic candidates. This ballot fraud scheme threw the district’s election results into question and forced a Republican congressmanelect to step aside in favor of a new election with new candidates conducted months later.

DEAR ABBY: Wife can’t shake distrust of husband caught in a lie

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are 58 and getting ready to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. We knew each other in college, but were just friends back then. After college, we married others and raised children. We stayed married to our spouses for close to 30 years.

A triumph at Mount Rushmore

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If nothing else, President Donald Trump’s July Fourth speech at Mount Rushmore clarified the battle lines of our culture war.

July 9 Stardust

25 YEARS AGO (1995)

DEAR ABBY: Mom tries to patch rift between two daughters

DEAR ABBY: I have three beautiful daughters. The oldest moved to Wisconsin some years ago. About a year ago, my middle daughter went to visit her. My older daughter said something about politics that the younger one didn’t like, and since then the younger one refuses to communicate with her, which is breaking my heart. My older daughter asked if I could help by talking to her. They used to be close and now this.

We need a leader who makes deliverance from death a unifying national cause

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The United States is entering dangerous, uncharted territory. With a little over 4% of the world’s population, our country has about 25% of COVID- 19 infections. Over the course of five months, more Americans have lost their lives to this disease (130,000 and counting) than died in World War I (116,516). New infections have reaccelerated and are rising toward some unknown peak.

Trump fights to keep a job Dems say he isn’t doing

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President Donald Trump is asking Americans to let him keep his job. His critics are questioning how much of that job he’s actually doing.