The Mercury News
By Amy Dickinson
+- About a year after my parents passed, Stan phoned me, asking if I would loan him $30,000.
- Dear Amy: I’m wondering if my brother, “Stan,” has written me off because I wouldn’t loan him money.
Read more >The Mercury News
By Amy Dickinson
+- Dear Friend: Given that this wedding is still several months away, you are probably still in the polite RSVP window.
- If she never apologizes for her comments, I don’t think I’d want to attend her wedding, but I don’t want to throw away our friendship over one fight.
Read more >The Mercury News
By Ward Stern
+- Despite a new anti-racism policy, Hayward Unified School District will fail hundreds more students of color than ever before.
- Other school districts have changed their grade policies to better respond to the pandemic.
Read more >The Mercury News
By Amy Dickinson
+- Do you have any words of wisdom for those of us still working in an office on handling the various attitudes and personal responsibilities to one another during this time?
- A co-worker recently said she was “uncomfortable” about the amount of traveling I do on my days off and requested I always wear a mask around her.
Read more >The Mercury News
By Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin
+- DEAR MISS MANNERS: My fiancee (now wife) and I wanted to have a potluck wedding reception, where instead of bringing gifts, the guests would bring a dish and share the recipe.
- Miss Manners understands your mother-in-law’s not wanting to put friends and family to work, although she might have found a more tactful way to express it to your wife.
Read more >
