Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...
John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Often I have been asked “What is your favorite country?” Or “What is the most beautiful country you’ve traveled in?” But I’ve never been asked “What is the most impressive country you’ve ...
Menopause is having a moment right now, and I hope it becomes a movement. I'm a 50-year-old perimenopausal woman and none of my doctors prepared me for this important milestone. When my children were born, I knew every developmental milestone to expect. Even when I was pregnant, I learned what ...
Success breeds failure. Policies and practices well suited to society at one juncture in history are often poorly suited to the world they have beneficially transformed. If you carry a good thing too far, it can turn out not to be a good thing anymore. Case in point, one of the most ...
I hope you will join me on Monday, November 17, and/or Wednesday, November 19, for an exciting and important dialogue about the future of Alpena Public Schools. Monday night is the Board of Education’s regularly scheduled Workshop meeting, and Wednesday night is a community forum. Both ...
There are few absolutes in this world, death and taxes easily come to mind. Everything else tends to be this or that, and not dogmatic. Only those things of Heaven, or the afterlife are unchangeable. Another view of the difference between this world and Heaven is that change and growth is of ...