I am a retiree on a fixed income, so I much appreciate the Trib’s e-newsletter, which I read every day. The May 15 newsletter, however, will remain in my thoughts for many days to come. The opening story featured a picture of a storage facility where a woman’s body was found. A man has been arrested for the murder.
Then I noticed a list of other articles in the May 15 issue: a man fatally shot his wife after accusing her of cheating; a man was arrested after his girlfriend reports injuries of a beating that required removal of her spleen; a man was charged with 15 felonies after a girl reported he began assaulting her at age 12; and, finally, a woman accused a man of forcing his way into her home and trying to suffocate her.
As a woman who has lived on this planet for 75 years, I am way too familiar with such articles — and articles like the one also in this edition about the protests against the U.S. Supreme Court’s apparent support for sending us back to the dark times before Roe v. Wade.
I have been a feminist since the 1970s and will be one until my dying day. But today’s local news just reflects what is happening in our whole country, and indeed, the whole world. How sad.
Wanda Rader
Salem