On June 4, 2024, an op-ed I penned (Project 2025’s threat to democracy) was published in The Fulcrum, a national non-partisan social media platform. It received over 74,000 views and landed as one of the top 10 most read op-eds – out of 1,460 – published in 2024. The op-ed identified ...
Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. “Worthwhile initiative” is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained ...
It hasn’t been a good news cycle for Iowa’s public schools recently. The Waterloo Community School District announced budget cuts of over $10 million for their upcoming school year. Then I saw that the Cedar Rapids Community School District is facing a $12 million budget deficit and is ...
President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants — 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump's removal of Venezuelan nationals. (Deportation happened anyway.) I definitely want immigrant criminals deported. Trump says migrant crime ...
Maybe you’re getting a little stressed out. Let’s say it’s increasingly difficult to ignore the political news these days — the stuff about the looming government shutdown, the tariffs, the Tesla sitting on the White House front lawn, the green-card-carrying legal resident of the U.S. ...
Senator Mark Daly from Ireland visited this week. Relations with Ireland date back many years. Ireland has a historic role in 1775 at the battle of Lexington and Concord when the American War of Independence began. Introducing Sweeney’s intern: My name is Emily Bray and I am a junior at ...