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Our broken trust

In April of 2020, San Clemente, Calif., dumped 37 tons of sand into a skate park to keep teenagers out of it. Down the coast, deputies arrested a man for paddleboarding alone in the Pacific Ocean. Towns unbolted basketball rims. The mayor of Los Angeles told Angelenos that snitches get ...

Clarence Thomas played the long game. He won

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist views were relegated to dissenting opinions. Three and a half decades later, Thomas, now the second-longest-serving justice in the court's history, regularly finds himself in the majority. Thomas, in short, has won the long game. But how? Thirty-five years ago, mainstream legal training and ...

A flawed goose policy

The Alpena Municipal Council’s decision to reject a controlled goose hunt in favor of egg-oiling and flashing lights ignores both practical reality and local experience. Sidewalks, the bike path, beaches, playgrounds, and city parks remain coated in droppings. Residents can no longer walk the path, take children to the playground, or even attempt a picnic without stepping through a mess. Arriving cruise passengers and summer visitors are met with fouled pathways rather than an inviting waterfront. Recent minutes show $868 spent on two “Away With Geese” lights, with more ...

The Bible is clear about how to treat strangers

In the New Testament of the Bible, there are 59 statements, commands even, about how we should treat one another. These are often just called the “One Anothers.” Notice that these cannot be accomplished without us being known, being in relationship, being present and committed to one ...

Kids are actually talking to one another again

Long before cell phones invaded every school in the state driving down student attention spans to lower than the balance in your checkboo, about the only way students back in the day could ignore the teacher was to hide a dirty book inside the pages of a text book and then hope teach would not ...