Op-Ed

It’s not every day that you meet someone who lights up a room with their charismatic personality and zest for life while making you feel like you’re the most important individual inside those four walls.

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“You ain’t no better than anyone else, and there ain’t no one else any better than you.”

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Having recently commemorated the 53rd anniversary of Dr. King’s death, I think we can all agree that we are at a “powerful moment” in our history , as the events surrounding the death of George Floyd compel us to face, and to tell, the truth, concerning our nation’s history of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching and systemic racism. To be sure, these last several months have been a period of great reflection.

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President Joe Biden is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he’s launched an ignorant and incendiary attack on the new Georgia voting law.

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Sitting in my sixth grade home room with the laughter of fellow classmates echoing in my ears, I felt an air of melancholy sweep over me like a tidal wave while contemplating my last day of instruction at Bentworth Middle School.

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They were between a rock and a hard place. Being a Jewish religious and political leader in Jerusalem in the early first century was a tough job. The rock was the Roman government, and the hard place was the constant tension caused by the common Jewish citizens.

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When I was growing up an ice cream cone was a nickel a scoop. Now, a single scoop cone at my local Baskin Robbins is three dollars. That’s sixty nickels. So far as I am aware, there is no shortage of cows or sugar.

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Since I am a self-appointed family genealogist tracing my lineage back through and annals of history, I was pleasantly surprised upon making the discovery of having followed in the footsteps of a distant relative without even realizing it.

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Don’t you just hate smart-aleck teenagers? Especially when they are right.

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It is late March 2021, and many schools are hoping to convince students and parents to return to in-person, face-to-face learning on campus.

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Joe Biden has signed what may well end up being the biggest accomplishment of his presidency, an enormous $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill.

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