Opinion

Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threatening lives across America and even our not-yet-born great-grandchildren? You’ve blocked mRNA vaccine research.  

Research!

Bobby, you know damn well that mRNA is our best hope for an anti-cancer vaccine. What are you doing to us, Bobby?

You’ve kicked out over 3,000 scientists at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. Who do you have left, Bobby, to control diseases? So, when the next pandemic hits, we won’t have mRNA, we’ll have beef tallow and bleach.

You’ve terminated over 800 medical research grants. Let’s take one: Why in the world did you terminate the brain injury outpatient education program at Seattle Children’s Hospital? Did Dr. Joe Rogan suggest that?

Central Ohio hosts a number of outdoor farmers’ markets providing freshly-harvested produce. Leading a group of these markets is Abbe Turner, a farmer herself. Abbe is the new Executive Director of Common Greens which runs five local farmers’ markets every week. Be it a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Saturday, Common Greens has one or more markets in action that day. Operating times for downtown’s Pearl Alley, Clintonville, Bexley, Upper Arlington and the innovative OhioHealth’s Riverside farmers’ markets can be found at the Common Greens website. You have until the end of October to catch the action, except for Clintonville’s market where they will tough-it-out through November.

For the 2025 season, Abbe was excited to recruit 30 new vendors. Common Greens now hosts 170 unique vendors including both home- and farm-based specialty food producers. Market volunteers help to count attendance. “This season we are on track to record 140,000 shoppers,” Abbe said in excitement.

Progressives and lefties fully embrace joining and supporting unions, but how do we deal with a union that continuously encourages members to approve contracts they don’t want?

There are roughly 12,500 Kroger United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) 1059 members. Most are in Central Ohio, and during the pandemic they risked their lives to meet the community’s needs. They were never furloughed, didn’t receive a dime of unemployment, and were paid an insulting extra $2-an-hour or given a one-time modest bonus.  

Keep in mind Kroger UFCW 1059 members are the adults who work fulltime. They toil day-in-day out stocking fridges and shelves, working the cash register, or unloading trucks in the backend. And every three or four years their contract with Kroger comes up for a vote.