Reading Time: 5 minutes A newspaper columnist writes that we’ve gotten so mean, she dreads writing her column. It’s going to take a lot of hard, creative work to make us a more civil society.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Younger people have been historically voting in smaller numbers, but they may be catching up—just in time
Reading Time: 3 minutes Louisville mayoral candidate forum will focus exclusively on renewable energy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pop music tells us we used to drive cars for fun and freedom. Now we seem to just sadly ride around in them.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hunter Biden’s book counters the stigma against people in drug treatment by describing, in detail, his own addiction
Reading Time: 3 minutes Biden’s inauguration showed the power and the hope of compassion.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Obituaries mourn death and celebrate life. Write them with pride.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I supplemented my college education this week with a lesson about part of what makes this a uniquely free country. The phrase “Free country” gets used in ways that mean a lot of different things. What I realized this week is how it’s more than a slogan. A free country is real, specific, and rare
Reading Time: 2 minutes How would you label yourself? You get one word. OK, give yourself a two or three-word phrase. Is that fair? Accurate? Would it tell someone who you are? Red Sox fan? Farmer? Retired? Liberal? And what would the person seeing that label conclude? Might it be filtered through their biases? I’m working on a writing