The Supporter Column in this week's Kildare Nationalist, out now or on line at www.kildare-nationalist.ie , looks back at last weekend's Kildare games and in…
Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Re “We don’t ‘prevent suicide’,” (Dec. 25): It’s great that Twitter restored its suicide-prevention tool, but Twitter and other companies should be doing more to prevent suicide, not simply restoring an inadequate status quo. One easy way to do that would be to expand the range of search terms that return suicide prevention information.
Staten Island: Voicer Maria Sinclair bemoaned the piddling amount given to her for her serious illnesses from her time at Ground Zero. She’s not alone. It seems the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund prioritized payments for these exact same diseases to cops and firefighters while simply crapping on all others.
Medford, L.I.: Kudos to Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin for backing up a New York State judge’s ruling that the city must rehire essential workers who were fired because they refused to take the COVID vaccine and cited that they should receive back pay for being summarily dismissed. Now that’s what I call righting a wrong!