Columns: Editorial

As champagne corks pop for New Year’s toasts in a few weeks, wishes for a safer, healthier and less chaotic year in 2021 will be a common theme.

This week I overheard a snippet of my son’s remote learning 4th grade class. One of the students was having an issue getting her audio to work and the teacher was temporarily stumped.

One summer in college I worked in a factory that packaged dry goods like Hamburger Helper and Lipton onion soup mixes.

The coronavirus has caused us to consider how much our world is interwoven, how fragile networks can be, and how important it is to shore up and maintain strong ties to avoid major crises.