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Congress must stop proposed Head Start changes

Letters to the Editor

Congress must immediately call on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind RFK Jr.’s proposed rules attacking Head Start and protect this vital program! Since his time in office, Kennedy has repeatedly undermined the well-being of our nation’s children, families and moms–the very population his department is tasked with serving and supporting. Now, instead of helping families, RFK Jr. is attacking Head Start, the nation’s important social and educational program for children, families, and communities, by proposing to eliminate most of the program's ...

A hard pill to swallow

Letters to the Editor

It must have been a hard pill to swallow when school boards members, Sarah Costain, Monica Dziesinski and Eric Lawson, who were facing a recall effort, realized over 4300 individuals in the community felt they were quite bad at their school board job. Over 4300 community members picked up a pen and signed a recall petition which would have put these three back on the ballot in November so voters could decide whether to continue with the chaos and waste they bring to the school board, or replace them. All was on track for the “replace” option which is likely what drove their decision ...

$40,000,000,000,000.00 and counting

Editorials and columns

America just achieved another milestone and not in a good way. This week our National Debt topped $40,000,000,000,000.00! That’s 40 trillion dollars. It’s nearly impossible for us to comprehend just one trillion, but I will try. A million seconds ago was about 11 days ago. A billion ...

Why little girls should dance

Editorials and columns

The lights turn on, the sequin dresses are in place, the tap shoes are tied tight with little bows. Hair spray hangs heavy in the air, mothers are running down the halls with tulle and ribbons billowing behind them — fathers are sitting in the audience with a bouquet of flowers. Cameras are ...

Going to the dogs

Editorials and columns

Sometimes the right thing happens at the right time. A scenario so perfect that one knows the only orchestration could have come from above. It’s a situation that has completely changed my view on something I dug my heels in on. We now have a dog. This busy dad thought that a dog ...

American voices

Editorials and columns

PARIS -- NATO or Cosa Nostra? The U.S., under President Donald Trump, has just asked its transatlantic defense allies to swear allegiance to the U.S. Or,more specifically, to the way that Trump is running the U.S. So Team Trump sent out a questionnaire to its Western defense allies, ...