by Craig Nash | Jul 3, 2025 | Opinion
Author’s Note: Overnight, the House of Representatives cleared a key hurdle to passing Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The president’s key legislative agenda appears to be heading to his desk to sign. The bill, according to all independent budget...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jul 2, 2025 | Opinion
Nowhere is safe in Gaza. I never imagined I would live in a time where the death of innocent people would become just another headline that doesn’t stir any outrage. The world is becoming numb to the killing of innocent civilians in Gaza. The images are being shared...
by Mary Dyer | Jul 2, 2025 | Opinion
Would You Baptize an olive tree? This is not a rhetorical question, but a story that happened to a man in Galilee. His name is Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Arab Israeli who served as the Archbishop of All of Galilee from 2006 to 2012. He is a member of the Melkite...
by Tyler Tankersley | Jul 1, 2025 | Opinion
Missouri may have one of the strangest state nicknames. Legend has it that in 1899, a Democratic congressman (a species that now borders on extinction) named William Duncan Vandiver said, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats,...
by Adam DJ Brett | Jul 1, 2025 | Opinion
The release of Micron’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) marks a pivotal moment for Central New York. As the largest private development in New York state history, this $100 billion microchip fabrication facility promises jobs, investments and technological...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 30, 2025 | Opinion
Brain-dead after suffering a fatal stroke and in the early weeks of her pregnancy, the doctors at Emory University Hospital finally turned off the machines after the emergency C-section delivery of her son, Chance, who weighed less than two pounds. Adriana Smith was...