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Michael. Barone

For those of us of a certain age, the assassination of Charlie Kirk brought back memories of other momentous assassinations -- the moment of disbelief and then stomach-turning horror on first hearing the news, the sense that events were tilting wildly out of kilter, the fear that more terrible ...

Holding Space for Good

When Samantha Siegel's best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life. Samantha was a college student going through a hard time. Her friend just wanted to get her out of the house for a while. They went to see ...

Tim Graham

The shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah looked like the opposite of the Washington Post motto. It's "Democracy Dies in Sunlight." Thousands of people gathered joyfully to hear freedom of speech and saw it end with a bullet to the neck. The dominant media ...

Tracy Beckerman

Superman is able to see through walls. Spider-Man can detect things with his Spidey-sense. Me? I can smell something in the next county. Yes, it's true. I am Super Smell Woman (not to be confused with the significantly less appealing Super Smelly Woman). I can detect unseen mold under a ...

From the Desk of Dr. J

As I watched the sorrowful and horrifying news reports of the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk while he was speaking at Utah Valley University, I thought about how political violence and gun violence are driving our nation to a dangerous edge of no return. Other ...

Out and About: Ben Garbacz

The U.P. is quite the outdoorsman’s paradise, with some game animal or fish always in season every month of the year and a majestic landscape to explore while tracking the animal or waiting for the fish to bite. One of my favorite hobbies to eat up free time is fishing, and it has quite the ...