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 ...
All this bruhaha of late over the suggestion that another state -- say, South Carolina -- be awarded the coveted pageant sash emblazoned with “First in the Nation” in gold letters and “presidential primary” in smaller, plainer letters got me thinking about the time I took a ride deep ...
The season of Advent is a time of anticipation, culminating in the celebration of the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day. Though there are other aspects to Advent, it can be thought of, in essence, as waiting for the birth of a very special baby. Our family has been waiting for the birth of ...
