The following comments and views are my own and not necessarily those of the Alpena Public School Board of Education or my colleagues. Dear concerned citizens, If you’ve been reading the news and are wondering what is going on with your school board, let me shed some light. There’s a ...
We now know something the Biden administration spent years denying: It wasn't merely enforcing the law around abortion clinics -- it was allegedly partnering with abortion activists to identify, track and ultimately prosecute pro-life Americans. And that should stop every honest person in ...
Birthdays, at my age, now 73, are a far cry from those of my youth. Back then there were the birthday parties, the sleepovers and of course the presents, but more importantly it was the beginning of your future, a future full of dreams and adventures all wrapped up in feelings of immortality. ...
There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of institutional respect. President Donald J. Trump's attack on a sitting pope invites comparison to one of the most consequential overreaches in modern American history: when ...
When I was a child, my older brother would sometimes ask - aka, tell - me to make him a sandwich. And my mother, shaped by a time when traditional roles were more firmly drawn, would reinforce the request. As a schoolgirl, I didn’t have the language for what I felt. I only knew something ...
As far as showdowns between popes and secular leaders go, President Trump versus Pope LEO hardly rates. LEO hasn't forced Trump to come see him and stand for three days in the snow, the way Pope Gregory VII did to Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1077. Nor has he issued an interdict, a ...