Opinion

I want to tell you a story that happened many years ago, as recently as today and will happen again tomorrow. It is a story about a deceptively familiar place where securing the basic necessities of life, health care, housing, transportation and communication requires persistence to overcome one obstacle after another. I call this place The Parallel Universe.

The year was 1981, and there they sat, four honor students donning golden cords draped around their neck, with the bright tassels resting midway down the front of their navy blue polyester graduation gown. And me, a B- student at best, president of my senior class, waiting alongside them, sans such haughty phylacteries of higher academic achievement.

The following are upcoming public meetings in Clinton County:

At U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development we are committed to ensuring people, no matter where they live, have access to health care by expanding high speed internet and partnering with local medical providers to bring telehealth services to rural communities across the nation. And we know that access to mental and behavioral health care can exponentially increase quality of life for people everywhere.

Businesses across Ohio need to be able to continue to grow by accessing affordable financing to drive innovation, hiring and investment in new equipment. Despite a challenging economy, federal bank regulators, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have proposed new rules, known as Basel III Endgame, that could be the end game to Main Street Lending for Ohio’s small businesses.

I found a small booklet in which was pasted several articles. This appears to have perhaps been published in the New Vienna paper. The first article is entitled “The American Indian” and was written by Martha B. Hildebrand. The first few lines have “crumbled away.” The following is part two of the remainder of the article as written. No accounts of events have been historically proven. Any terms are as they appear in the article:

I want to tell you a story that happened many years ago, as recently as today and will happen again tomorrow. It is a story about a deceptively familiar place where securing the basic necessities of life, health care, housing, transportation and communication, requires persistence to overcome one obstacle after another. I call this place “The Parallel Universe.”

I found a small booklet in which was pasted several articles. This appears to have perhaps been published in the New Vienna paper. The first article is entitled “The American Indian” and was written by Martha B. Hildebrand. The first few lines have “crumbled away.” The following is the remainder of the article as written. No accounts of events have been historically proven. Any terms are as they appear in the article:

More often than not when I hunker down at my desk, usually around midnight, to finally pen these silly forgettable missives, I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to ruminate on when that typewriter screen flickers on and I cautiously set my reheated steaming leftover morning coffee down between the keyboard and monitor. There are also more times than not that my eyes well up with tears, because it’s usually mere hours before the deadline to get this essay to the editor.

I want to tell you a story about a deceptively familiar place where securing the basic necessities of life, health care, housing, transportation and communication, requires persistence to overcome one obstacle after another. I call this place “The Parallel Universe.”