Mattie Jones turned 92 at the end of March. Friends, family, state senators and our U.S. congressman filled the First Congregational Methodist Church to celebrate her. I first met Mattie Jones a year ago when she spoke to a racial justice class designed for white allies. Jones is a civil rights ...
To the Editor: We are grateful for AJʼs joining the Planning Commission and for the experience and expertise she brings. We have witnessed and spoken at multiple meetings over the last couple of years. We observe the commission as ignorant of protocol coupled with arrogance and incompetence. ...
Go along or stand against? There's a tendency among Americans to seek compromise, to have a win-win solution for both sides in any controversy, but you cannot compromise with someone like Donald Trump. You either give in or resist. Since Jan. 20, Trump has issued an executive order violating ...
Editors note: THE FOLLOWING COLUMN WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2022. Dear Annie: I've been seeing this guy since early December. He's perfect in every way, except he seems to be attached to this one woman, "Suzy," who he became good friends with due to unfortunate pasts connecting the two of ...
A deadly fungus is spreading like crazy across the U.S., sickening and killing hospital patients, and the federal response has been ineffectual at best. It's in half the states, including New York, with soaring annual increases in the number of patients sickened, per the American Journal of ...
At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) asked PBS boss Paula Kerger, "Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?" Kerger said, "Yes." Fallon then noted that on "Washington Week with The Atlantic" in 2023, host and Atlantic ...