Category: Feature

  • How one West End service provider deals with Covid-19

    How one West End service provider deals with Covid-19

    by Jerry RothsteinAmong the West End enterprises that I would call “iconic,” Sibley Manor is one that provides irreplaceable benefit to fragile and vulnerable members of…

  • When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

    When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

    By choice or by force. With great success or great struggle. People move or are uprooted, for many reasons. The world is currently witness to the…

  • Medicare Response to COVID-19

    Medicare Response to COVID-19

    Medicare has temporarily expanded its coverage of telehealth services to respond to COVID-19. Go to medicare.gov/coverage/telehealth for details.Medicare beneficiaries can temporarily use telehealth services for common…

  • Challenging Times

    Challenging Times

    From 1968 to 1971 I was witness to death and near-death experiences in West Africa that prepared me for what was to become. What came…

  • The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    West End Healthline by Conor Richardson, MDThe practice of Yoga is more than 5,000 years old — from ancient Yogis, to people in the 21st…

  • ‘Snap’ Leitner: “We always have to give back.”

    ‘Snap’ Leitner: “We always have to give back.”

    West Enders Making a Difference by Pat Tupper“When we are young, we are oblivious to the many ways we are helped,” Snap said, “but as…

  • Dear West 7th Neighbors,

    Dear West 7th Neighbors,

    As we all do our best to follow guidelines for slowing the spread of COVID-19, including social distancing, two of our organizations — West 7th…

  • DEAR DEB Teach Our Children Well

    DEAR DEB Teach Our Children Well

    Just last week the PBS News Hour sponsored The Plastic Problem and the Pioneer Press in St. Paul featured a front-page article regarding the dilemma humanity…

  • You Count! And we all need to!

    You Count! And we all need to!

    We all do better when we are all counted, especially when it comes to the U.S. Census.    I want to share two important messages: First,…