by Jan Turrentine | Nov 12, 2004 | Opinion
Last Jan. 28, Justin Gregorich joined other potential football players in his school’s weightlifting room for a scheduled conditioning practice. He was hoping to try out for the junior varsity football team this fall. At five-foot-three and 130 pounds, Justin...
by Jan Turrentine | Nov 5, 2004 | Opinion
The music has stopped for too many public school children, particularly those on the lower end of the economic scale. And that’s just not acceptable for people like David Wish. As an elementary school teacher in 1996, Wish became frustrated with the lack of...
by Jan Turrentine | Oct 29, 2004 | Opinion
It had all the ingredients for a major household conflict: two children, one candy bar. It had all the ingredients for a major household conflict: two children, one candy bar. My brother insisted that he should have it because he was older and larger and therefore...
by Jan Turrentine | Oct 22, 2004 | Opinion
Her decision defies logic and flies in the face of cultural expectations. She left a life of privilege in Beverly Hills to live in a 10-foot concrete cell with no hot water at La Mesa prison in Tijuana, Mexico. Her closest neighbors are murderers, thieves and drug...
by Jan Turrentine | Oct 15, 2004 | Opinion
My first allowance—25 cents per week—came with both obligation and opportunity, in that order. My parents usually gave my allowance in some combination of nickels and dimes. It was easier that way, they explained, to take a nickel from those coins and save it to put...
