Marijuana is misunderstood by many. In part, that’s because people tend to dismiss what they don’t understand. When it comes to marijuana and whether it should be decriminalized, there isn’t a lot of ambiguity...
These are the facts: On the third of last November, more Americans voted in our Presidential election than ever before in U.S. history. The highest percentage of eligible American voters ever cast...
Before Kamala Harris, before Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Unbought and unbossed, she was a uniquely gifted politician who leveraged...
Originally printed November 2019 It’s November, which means it is election month, and with 2020 right around the corner, it is time to start talking about voting. And no, not just the presidential...
I was 18 years old when Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, in 2014. So was Michael Brown. A month earlier in New York, 44-year-old Eric Garner died from a police chokehold...
America as we know it has disappeared forever. In the wake of COVID-19 and the necessary push to stay home and physically distance, there is an ongoing, and understandable, desire to return to normal....
You’ve either said it or you have heard it – “Sunday is the most segregated day of the week.” And in the 21st century in the wake of all the civil unrest and racial injustices, there is an all-out...
The more informed people are about a topic the more likely they are to make sound decisions. That is what John Nowlin, a lifelong resident of Montgomery County, always has believed. Nowlin, 77, says the most...
The invasion of America by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the American landscape in ways never expected. The more than 150,000 deaths throughout America have been devastating for families where a father,...
My view of these two movements (Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter) is shaped by life experience. I grew up in majority Norwegian ethnic farming community in Minnesota. In 1961, I traveled...
