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CONNECTIONS: A noble calling — hooray for local news

Let nothing more weighty than the size of a match box and the number of letters it could hold limit local news reporting in these tense times.

A very stable Leap Day proposal

I’m proposing to the man whom Michelle Obama will not name that he plan “executive time” all day this Saturday - the whole 24 hours - without tweeting once.

Alan Chartock: Trump may be re-elected as Democrats flounder

Democratic members of Congress know that the frustration level among their constituents is so great that even the moderates are forced to join the impeachment bandwagon.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Becoming’ shows Michelle Obama’s transcendence of bias to ultimately flourish

Michelle Robinson Obama was born, in her words, “a black working class girl” at a time when her hardworking father, tending boilers for the city of Chicago, provided a cramped apartment on the second floor of “a tidy brick bungalow” owned by her mother’s aunt on the South Side of Chicago. There, she and her brother and parents lived in a space meant for two.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Incivility

Recently, I was at an afternoon movie following a doctor’s appointment. I wanted to pleasantly kill some time before I put my chauffer’s cap...

The Self-Taught Gardener: Preparing for the next term

Cool season weeds are the bane of a gardener’s existence and, if left in place, easily wreak havoc in the garden. I liken them to John Podesta or Governor Chris Christie.

In wake of lynching threat, Monument principal, students, say school has racial tension, issues

“There are bigots and racists in the world, but Monument doesn’t have to be the way the world is out there...we can influence our community by the way we treat others and ourselves.” --- Student Senate President Teddy Michaels
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