Wednesday, January 26, 2022

BOOK TITLES NOT ACCESSIBLE FOR CLASSROOM USE

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by Sister Lou Ella Hickman, I.W.B.S. “School librarians are professionals dedicated to the education and protection of children while cultiv...

OUT OF THE RACE

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by David L Williams Cartoon by Nick Anderson at The Week A Republican state lawmaker has launched an investigation into Texas school distric...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

IN WHICH I INTERROGATE MY FREQUENT RESPONSE

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by Eileen Ivey Sirota Surveillance video shows a Black 17-year-old struggling with staff at a Wichita juvenile center last fall before his d...
Monday, January 24, 2022

MINDFULNESS

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by Mary K O'Melveny Thich Nhat Hanh , a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, was one of the world’s most famous peace advocates, philosophers and p...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

WINTER MORNING

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by Terri Kirby Erickson Beyond the snow-laden hill and ice-covered field, ancient oaks are raising their bare limbs toward a sky marbled wit...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

[GUANTÁNAMO] DOESN'T WORK

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by Ron Riekki “Guantánamo is probably the number one recruitment tool  that is used by these Jihadist organizations.”  —former President Bar...
Friday, January 21, 2022

THE WINTER GAMES GO ON

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by Rudi E. Welec, “Abs” Although detainees must sleep in cramped cells on cement floors, and though they must wear shackles with their numbe...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

WOMEN OF GHŌR

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by Steven Croft In twilight we stare into our deaths like we are the coming darkness Our harrowed babies cry but we dare not sing to them Th...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

ANOTHER RAPID TEST

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by Devon Balwit The Biden Administration to Begin Distributing At-Home, Rapid COVID-⁠19 Tests to Americans for Free. Americans can order a ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

IN THE ROUND

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by Indran Amirthanayagam Yes, I pray now to God, to Francis whose name I took at Confirmation, to the Pieta in whose lap I lie, to my mother...
Monday, January 17, 2022

WILD ABOUT WHITE

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by Jen Schneider FIND AN ANIMAL SHELTER IN YOUR AREA sets on. lights bright. everyone wild. wild about white. all bets on betty. betty alway...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

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by Geoffrey Philp The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued level 4 and level 2 travel advisories for Jamaica which se...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

WINTRY MIX

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by Tricia Knoll As a forecast this seems like calling for mayhem until the front moves in and the silence of snow licks every branch and sti...
Friday, January 14, 2022

BASEBALL LOCKOUTS AND WINTER DREAMS

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by Earl J. Wilcox Baseball labor talks to end the lockout resumed Thursday for the first time in 1½ months with little evident progress duri...