Climate change is one of our most pressing issues, and we must approach it in a constructive way that takes into account the broader implications on our economy and way of life. Let’s tap into the American spirit of innovation and collaboration, and meet this challenge head on.

With COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths decreasing, with vaccines promised to be widely available to the general public by July, and with possible herd immunity coming soon, the best stimulus to the economy would be to open up businesses, allowing people to return to work while practicing health and safety measures.

Britney’s fans have their own lives, and their trials and heartbreak are as real as hers. But the celebrity machine demands that the public cheer and cry over strangers who are famous. Perhaps the public has a right to be freed from Britney Spears.

Fortunately, Texans responded when their “leaders” didn’t. In Austin, a grocery driver got stuck in a dooryard. The homeowners put her up for five days in a spare bedroom until she could get her SUV towed out of their flower bed. In Houston, homeowners stop plumbers on the street and asked to hire them. Plumbers are hailed as heroes.