When I was young, I was so bummed that I had not been alive in the 1960s. My father regaled me with stories of his youth and how amazing it all was as this country struggled with questions about its soul. What did it mean when it said all men were created equal? Could we reframe that statement ...
Producer: I hope you’ve got something for me. The executives are insisting I give them a more realistic plot! It’ll never work. Scriptwriter: No worries! I found a great real-life couple to write about. They’ve been married for 36 years! Producer: Wow! I didn’t know people still did ...
“You’re all afraid to face what you really are.” — The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neil During its October 2024 session, Senate Democrats and Republicans fashioned a smart, sensible, and compassionate bipartisan immigration bill that had enough support in both the Senate and House to ...
Persuading my young children to eat healthy meals as they grew up in the 90s was made easier by a colorful poster of the official Food Pyramid hung on the side of our fridge. There it faced the dining table so my kids could look at their plates, look at the Pyramid, and realize they didn’t ...
On Jan. 6, ABC4 reported new additions to Utah’s list of banned books, which resulted in a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union against the state of Utah. Said the ACLU in a press release, according to the article: “These laws undermine students’ fundamental freedoms by ...
About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...
