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Summer and Smoke

As Canada’s ashes turn the sky yellow, and New York City glimmers dimly in the haze, and we chew the dull bone of climate change, I see the black smoke from the burning tanks in Ukraine. A reminder: As we insist freedom is best served by the dead bodies of schoolchildren, and the ...

Agriculture education is a vital investment for rural America

As a father of four, ensuring that our kids receive a quality education is a top priority for me. From trade schools to four-year universities, our great state offers our students many opportunities to further their education, develop the skills they need to enter the workforce, and live ...

Take a class this summer!

In the academic world, people assume that we are in it to take summers off. While the pace may slow after graduation, we still provide learning opportunities to our communities throughout the summer. Whether we are providing enrichment opportunities to our younger audiences, avenues for area ...

Is the GOP tiptoeing toward normality?

Every morning, before we open our eyes, every one of us must grapple with the excruciating possibility that Donald Trump could be reelected. It’s the nightmare from which we cannot awake, at least for now. And yet, something is stirring in the Republican Party. After eight vertiginous years ...

The revolution at the heart of ‘Pride’

June 1 marked the advent of Pride Month — the most important sacrament of the American secular religious calendar. During Pride Month, public schools across the nation teach small children the joys of alternative sexual practices and orientations; corporations plaster their stores in rainbow ...

Grace Bell: An artist on artists

How do you describe an artist? You talk about their art. Well, what if the artist has more than one art form as most artists do? You talk about each of their art forms as defining part of the artist, like one piece of the pie. In Grace Bell’s artist portfolio there is photography, music, ...