In the United Nations, the United States sided with Russia, Belarus and North Korea — three authoritarian regimes currently rampaging through parts of Ukraine — against a General Assembly resolution that noted Russia as the aggressor in the Ukrainian invasion. China and Iran would not side ...
Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow automatically from democracy. Before ...
A month into Donald Trump’s second term, Democrats continue to commit old mistakes. They are reactive with a tendency to go down the same rabbit holes and thus play into Trump‘s hands. For the President, his opponents persist in pushing familiar criticisms while not developing their own ...
This coming Friday we plan to have our second “First Friday Focus on Education” gathering in the Learning Lab at Kump Education Center, 401 S. Randolph Avenue across from Kroger at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 7. We hope to develop more understanding of problems that impede progress in ...
Applause to Meals on Wheels of Randolph County, which was presented a donation check for $10,000 from Movement Mortgage. Movement Mortgage representatives nominate local non-profit organizations nationwide for its annual GraceWorks grant. Meals on Wheels of Randolph County doesn’t receive ...
In a speech last year, I recounted a story in which my husband and I were talking about democracy, and he said something that was so chilling to me that it had been on my mind for weeks. I can say now that his words still echo in my head. He said that democracy will not die on the ...