Public attention in the COVID-19 pandemic emergency has focused mostly on the horrific case and death numbers and the challenges hospitals and health care workers are facing.Additionally, people keep hoping for promising news about a possible quick cure or effective vaccine.The issue of the ...
Summer has been a nice respite.ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ felt freeing to get some sunshine, to go for a swim or fish, or to take the dogs for a walk.The state orders were significantly relaxed (locally, on June 5) and we also got to step back into the social lives we’d missed for weeks.As we went out, we were ...
The monuments to Confederate generals and to those who fought to maintain slavery are coming down. ThatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ a good thing and long overdue.It cannot stop there, however, as we move not only to eradicate their symbolism, but the very real systemic racism they represent, and which sadly persists ...