by Curtis Ramsey-Lucas | Sep 20, 2007 | Opinion
The persistence of poverty, and in particular of children living in poverty, prompts the question: What can (and can’t) government do to respond? Complicating matters is the fact that this question is raised in an environment of general skepticism regarding the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 19, 2007 | Opinion
The next time you’re in a public restroom, look around — someone may be watching, and not just for foot tapping in the stalls. A recent study reports something we instinctively know: women are more likely than men to wash their hands before leaving the...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 19, 2007 | Opinion
Our nation is under surveillance for fear of terrorists. Terrorists are people who have given up hope of finding justice in this world. Their aim is either to change the world or destroy it. In their eyes, they’ve got nothing to lose. The fact that some people...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 18, 2007 | Opinion
Country music singer Rodney Atkins has a line about getting “discount knowledge at the junior college.” My introduction to post-secondary education came at what was then called Dalton Junior College in northwest Georgia.Though it lacked the academic prestige of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 17, 2007 | Opinion
After weeks of functioning beautifully, my blog disappeared from cyberspace last Friday. It was still there, but invisible, caught between servers in some sort of redirect loop that I (obviously) don’t fully understand. Fortunately, my friend George Frink does...
by Robert Parham | Sep 17, 2007 | Opinion
Zainabu Sesay will die in pain in Sierra Leone from breast cancer that has spread into her lymph glands. A tumor has “burst through her skin, looking like a putrid head of cauliflower weeping small amounts of blood at its edges,” reported the “New...
