As we approach the end of this year, many of us take these last few days as opportunities for reflection. We reflect on all we have accomplished this past year, and possibly scribble down new goals we plan to strive for after the clock strikes midnight on December 31st. We often hear, “New ...
And finally it’s Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia ...
Maybe if your name is Ebeneezer Scrooge, or you are covered in green fur with a heart two sizes too small, Christmas music fails to get you into the spirit. But, for most of us, it is the root of much of our Christmas celebrations. Each of us has our own genre of music with a preference for ...
The year 2022 is nearly over but for a few more weeks, Christmas, the winter solstice and New Year’s Eve. 2022 was an election year and that often brings out the worst in politicians, political hacks and supporters or opposers. Despite today’s politics of demonization, many good people ...
In the DNA of United Way is raising funds to fill a community chest which is then distributed to local programs by way of targeted and systematic grantmaking. This is what we have been doing to move our community forward ever since being founded in 1929 on the heals of the Crown Hill Fire. That ...
This lameduck session congress is in a unique position to pass a protection for Dreamers or we will see nearly 700,000 young people across the country face deportation. We need our leaders to stand up for our community members. In 2012, after Republican opposition stalled Congress’s push ...
