by Sam Davidson | Jun 30, 2008 | Opinion
Hospitals might be the only place where life is seen in its extremes. Happiness and sadness coexist in hospitals. Deaths and births happen simultaneously. Helena, Ark., is also a place where death and birth happen on nearly a daily basis. And while physical deaths and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 28, 2008 | Opinion
I hate being mad, so it’s a good thing that I don’t have a short fuse and don’t get my feelings hurt easily. In general, I’m more laid-back than high-strung, so while I’m in touch with angry feelings when they arise, I don’t dwell...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 27, 2008 | Opinion
The funeral service for Erby Walker will be held at St. Paul AME Church in Atlanta tomorrow. The longtime counterman at the famed Varsity drive-in died of a heart attack on Monday at the young age of 70 according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.A Varsity employee...
by James L. Evans | Jun 27, 2008 | Opinion
It was a noble experiment; risky but worth the risk. Human beings have inalienable rights, Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence. A declaration of human rights. Of course, there were glaring omissions. Women did not have the same inalienable rights as...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jun 27, 2008 | Opinion
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a problem with me. Well, not with me personally, but with my people. No, not white men in their late 50s who still read comic books; Jews, most of whom are not white, or in their late 50s, or readers of comic books (though we do...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 26, 2008 | Opinion
I’m a big fan of summer, mainly because it’s the season of fresh fruit. In these days of truck farms, long-haul transport, and supermarkets, you can buy most any fruit year round, but there’s something special about local fruits in their proper...
