Joel Freedman

1 week ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

I agree with Finger Lakes Times reporter Louise Hoffman Broach that jail and prison inmates should receive adequate healthcare and protection from dangerous inmates and from any correction personnel who may be sadistic or otherwise abusive in the way they treat inmates. (“Inmates are entitled to health care,” Finger Lakes Times, March 25)Some inmates are dangerous for both correction officers and other inmates.

3 weeks ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Andres McConnon

Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Italy in September 1943, Italian Maj. Mario Carita and his men ingratiated themselves with the Nazis by zealously pursuing Jews and anti-Fascists and by turning the torture of suspected enemies of the Nazis and Italian Fascists into a grim science. Carita’s headquarters in Florence was known as Villa Triste (House of Sorrow), so named because of the screams of tortured victims emanating from it.

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman

Among many other wasteful and unnecessary U.S. government expenditures, the newly created Department of Government Efficiency — or DOGE — has called attention to government funding for steroid-enhanced hamster fights ($3 million), cocaine experiments on beagle puppies ($2.3 million), research administering feminizing hormone therapy to male monkeys in a transgender monkey hormone study ($257,000), studying nicotine consumption in fish ($300,000), studying the sexual preferences of quails...

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Tiya Miles

Harriet Tubman was born about 1820, one of many children of Harriet Greene and Benjamin Ross, a slave couple owned by Edward Brodas of Dorchester County, Maryland. At age 13 or 14, Tubman, while trying to protect another slave from the brutality of a cruel overseer, was struck with a 2-pound weight that fractured her skull and would result in Tubman having frequent sleeping spells, headaches, and seizures for the remainder of her life.

1 month ago | fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Loren Grush

In his praise for journalist Loren Grush’s book “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts,” Andrew Chaikin, author of “A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts,” said this: “Today there is nothing unusual about a woman flying in space, walking in space, or living in space, which makes it difficult to imagine what it was like forty-five years ago for the six women who broke the highest of all glass ceilings to become astronauts.