rner you may be feeling a mix of emotions. Holidays can be a happy time while celebrating each other’s company. Holidays are a chance to celebrate your traditions and spend more time as family. Holidays can also bring feelings of sadness about the people who will not be around. Holidays ...
Children grow and develop at different rates, but most will meet many milestones between ages 3 and 5 that will prepare them for kindergarten. Developmental milestones can help to identify if a child may have a delay in specific areas including communication, motor skills, problem solving, ...
“Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.‚“ — Josh Shipp Potential lives within every kid. Yet, more than 8.5 million kids are still in need of someone who will stand in their corner. Today’s youth face a variety of challenges and a much more complex world. ...
OK, folks, here it comes — something that has been bugging us ever since we started glancing back to a world we grew up in, and what it’s become thanks to a single word: pollution. The word has been derived from a Latin word meaning “to make dirty.” Currently, it’s defined as ...
It is September, and all of our school districts have the excitement of starting a new year. There are many eager faces walking into our local buildings and around 600 hardworking teachers, support staff and administrators to greet them and to help each student reach their potential. Every ...
Fall brings cool evenings and the igniting of nature's festival of colors in the Keweenaw. It also brings a robust recruiting season as professionals from corporations across the nation descend on our small community. They are seeking the talented students that Michigan Tech and the surrounding ...
The ideal family is usually composed of a father, a mother & kids. Here’s a sort of light-hearted compilation regarding that necessary congregation: An elderly woman and her little grandson, whose face was sprinkled with freckles, spent the day at the zoo; there lots of children were ...
As police officers, we often field a wide range of questions from citizens regarding laws, our procedures, civil processes, criminal procedings, crime trends and various other things. We also end up getting questions about the weather. I don’t know why, but we get the calls. You may be ...
Impossible to press into a single column, but here’s a sample from just one person reflecting on a disaster affecting our lives forever: July 2, 2018 — Seems like ancient history since the first of the flood disasters began - starting Sunday morning, June 24, when I happened to glance ...
It was 5 a.m., and it had been raining and thundering all night long. Then in an instant, the house shook like it had been hit by a bolt of lightening, followed by an explosion. Waking from a sound sleep, my wife and I rushed to the other side of the house, peering into our living room ...
The Miss America Organization announced this week that it will no longer judge women on their “outward physical appearance.” To that end, the swimsuit competition is gone. “We are no longer a pageant,” Gretchen Carlson, the group’s head, explained. “Miss America will represent a new ...
When President Donald Trump blurted out that he was thinking of springing thoroughly corrupt former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich from federal prison, the reaction was predictably tribal. The pro-Trumpers spun it all by saying his Blagogevich move was a shot across the bow of his enemies in ...
Imagine that an impeachment resolution against Donald Trump passes the House. Trump claims it's the work of the “deep state.” Sean Hannity of Fox News demands that every honest patriot take to the streets. Right-wing social media call for war. As insurrection spreads, Trump commands the ...
The nation is just past halftime in the 2018 primary election cycle. Twenty states -- containing the majority, 228 of 435, of House districts -- have held their primaries, and all but the three with runoffs have chosen their nominees. The latest results, taken together with the generic vote ...
For kids, few moments in life are more glorious than the end of the school year and the start of summer vacation. Hooray! Three whole months of sweet freedom! Unlike in the past, many students do not spend summer break at the library or reading books in the backseat on family trips. In fact, ...
“Are you on the take?” When I tried to get Edgewater, New Jersey, politicians to answer that question, the mayor wouldn’t discuss it, ultimately telling me, “You may sit down.” The town of Edgewater is right across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Anyone fortunate enough to live ...
It made my mother scream. That’s what I remember. I had been lying dozy in bed, but at the sound of her, I scrambled into the living room. She was standing before the television watching an image of chaos in a hotel ballroom. Although I grew up in the 1960s, very few of the signal events ...
WASHINGTON — Television’s remembrances of Robert Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his death this week have brought back images of the huge crowds he drew, both in life and in leaving it. They mobbed and cheered him as he motored through big-city streets and then stood in stark silence ...
It was the fall of 1989. Or maybe the following spring. I remember the rising heat in the room but not the season outside the windows. I was one of the few non-lawyers in the packed house, feeling conspicuous in my bright new blazer. I kept catching myself swaying as if my baby were on my ...
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in ...