Opinion

During the current period of enforced isolation and social distancing, you may be craving warmth, companionship and plain old physical closeness. You may yearn to snuggle on the couch, feel valued and talk honestly about your practical problems and deep anxieties.

Did you know dogs are attentive listeners?

Animal shelters are among the many industries adapting to coronavirus regulations and stay-at-home orders. If you’re considering adopting or fostering a pet, you can do most of the groundwork online. Has the prospect occurred to you? Why not get a pet?

Milan is the V-8 engine of Italy’s economy. Known as an industrial and financial powerhouse, Milan is also famous for its foul air. Now the city and its region, Lombardy, have become the epicenter of Europe’s coronavirus pandemic. To stop the virus’ spread, factories, offices, restaurants and bars are closed. People are ordered to stay at home. The traffic is gone.

Questions for bureaucrats who have shut us down

Editor:

In these difficult times, our local and state governments are demanding we put our lives on a total shutdown. We are being prohibited from making money, we can’t operate our businesses because our citizens can’t go to work, as the bureaucracy has said we aren’t allowed to. We are being forced to wait on $1,200 from the U.S. government, and Democrats in Congress have demanded $200 million for the Kennedy Center and the endowment for the arts — nothing to do with our crisis!

President Trump can’t do right by some critics no matter what he does. For three years he’s been denounced as a reckless authoritarian, and now he’s attacked for not being authoritarian enough by refusing to commandeer American industry. The truth is that private industry is responding to the coronavirus without command and control by the federal government.