by Chuck Poole | Jul 9, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
We are approaching the fifth anniversary of a deeply troubling moment in our nation’s history. On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, over the course of just a few hours, approximately 600 federal agents detained 680 people working in food processing plants in the small...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 6, 2016 | News
More than 65 million people were forcibly displaced by conflict in 2015, according to a United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report, nearly 6 million more than 2014. Of the total, 21.3 million were refugees, which include 16.1 million under the UNHCR’s...
by Martin Accad | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
I collected recently my daughter’s U.S. passport that needed renewal, noting that it was accompanied by a leaflet that read, “With your U.S. passport, the world is yours!” Nothing shocking on first glance; just a sense of pride and patriotism that...
by Bob Newell | Jul 30, 2015 | Opinion
Some call it a modern-day Greek tragedy; others refer to it as the new normal for the country of Greece. Because my wife, Janice, and I moved to Athens, Greece, in 2005 and lived there for more than nine years and have many friends affected by it, we call it the...
by Bob Newell | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
Before and during the Great Depression, my grandfather, William Emmitt Newell, was a small truck farmer, living and growing his crops in the red dirt near Marion, Miss., just outside of the “Queen City” of Meridian. Granddaddy raised turnips, tomatoes,...
