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Jan 25, 2023
Your Letters, Week of Jan. 25
Roman Rules
America can learn from ancient Rome how to better deal with crime today.
Because democracy generally values all human beings, democratic Rome’s criminal statutes...
Jan 25, 2023
The Kind Guild
By Dr. Chad Johnson
I’m rejecting cynicism
Renouncing bitterness
Meditations while we sheltered
Have affirmed a yearning
Sanctioned a hunger
The gravitational tug
To mix with our own
We breathe with each...
Jan 17, 2023
Your Letters, Week of Jan. 18
Re-enactment
The scene in Brasilia recently was reminiscent of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by then-outgoing President Donald Trump’s supporters, who...
Jan 3, 2023
Go Global: World governance for no war
By Lawrence S. Wittner
Russia’s war upon Ukraine should be a reminder that violent international conflicts not only persist, but constitute a plague upon the...
Jan 3, 2023
Your Letters, Week of Jan. 4
Elephant in the Room
The most underreported story list is a list of distractions, important stories to be sure, in what many would consider, pre-COVID...
Jan 3, 2023
Culture Crush, Week of Jan. 4
Santa Rosa
Charlie Musselwhite at LBC
Mississippi-born, Memphis-raised, Grammy Award-winning music legend Charlie Musselwhite celebrates the release of his new album, Mississippi Son, with a live...
Dec 27, 2022
Us and Them: Division never wins
By Dan Shiner
Some years ago, Paul Tibbets invited Mitsuo Fuchida for a visit.
They had met briefly many years earlier. It took some time to...
Dec 27, 2022
Your Letters, Dec. 28
Dog Delivered
It was a Christmas miracle. I was walking my 18-pound poodle rescue dog, Gus, who is old and can’t hear or see very...