by From Our Readers | Sep 22, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, News
This is a new school-style portrait of my best friend Lani. We’ve been friends for 20 years now and are now 31-year-olds — that’s significant. Sadly, we live on opposite coasts now. She’s in San Fran and I’ve been between the Valley and Austin. I have two tattoos for...
by From Our Readers | Sep 14, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Change the conversation with #EachLifeMatters I am a black man who is troubled by #BlackLivesMatter. A human being is a microcosm of humanity, yet as Father Zossima remarks in The Brothers Karamazov, “It is easy to love mankind, but much more difficult to love a...
by From Our Readers | Sep 1, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Sanders is a champion of the working class Bernie Sanders, in contrast to the last five American presidents, is like a soothing summer breeze (“Citizen Sanders,” Aug.13-19, 2015). He has no cloaked agenda. With Sanders everything is up front for you to like or...
by From Our Readers | Aug 25, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Social good or Catholic bashing? In a coincidental twist, right before coming across Editor Kristin Palpini’s article, “Catholic Church Shirks Duty to Aging Religious,” Aug. 6-12, 2015, I read that the Diocese of Springfield donated $1 million dollars to the Sisters...
by From Our Readers | Aug 19, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Don’t Defund Planned Parenthood Why are Republicans still trying to defund Planned Parenthood? Don’t they know that by providing millions of women with effective birth control, Planned Parenthood is preventing the abortions that would result from the unwanted...