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WSU guest opinion: How history and dreams shape our reality

Is time an inflexible metronome, mechanically ticking down a one-way street, where past, present, and future are safely kept apart? Our highly structured society, with its schedules and deadlines, tends to reinforce this view. Yet from a scientific perspective, Einstein theorized, and later ...

The Homefront: Giving space and grace

The first person to live with our family was a 7-year-old foster child. Our kids came to us one day after holding their own family council to inform their parents that our family should foster a child. My husband and I were so caught off guard we agreed. We fulfilled the required training and, ...

ERICKSON: Equal, fair and farce

When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When ...