AARP goes to great lengths to maintain its public image as a politically unaffiliated senior advocacy organization. However, a quick peak behind the scenes makes it clear this image is largely a mirage. For years, the organization nurtured this perception, which helps the group skim by ...
“Adulting is a never-ending to-do list,” a dear friend mused recently. I had never heard a more accurate description of what it meant to grow up. There are all the things that must get done daily, and then there are the important but unnecessarily difficult tasks to navigate, like ...
Through a phenomenon called “linked fate,” small or marginalized groups tend to vote more as a unit rather than as individuals, assuming that without doing so they may not have a loud enough voice in the political system. However, exhaustion from a series of broken promises is breaking up ...
As another Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday approaches, our nation has much to celebrate as we strive toward MLK’s dream of a colorblind society. Since King’s untimely death in 1968, our nation has elected and re-elected its first African-American president. We’ve also recently sworn ...
One day after the NFL regular season expires they call it Black Monday. Coaches associated with failed teams do some serious pacing, stuffing their cellphones in sofa cushions hoping that if they don’t hear it ring their boss isn’t really calling to request his immediate presence on the ...
Volunteering is the lifeblood of any nonprofit. And I will say that we are blessed to live in a community where the spirit of volunteerism is alive and well. In fact, just at United Way we have hundreds of active volunteers logging thousands of hours in service to our community. They do ...
