Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor The Constitution Is Fine, It’s the Leadership That is the Problem If you are like many residents, you have begun to realize there are loopholes in the Constitution that have allowed for questionable behavior and dysfunction between the varying branches of government. Many of the rules that we […]
Community Schools: A Model for the Future
By LaKeshia Myers As an educator, I have had the opportunity to teach and lead in many different school settings. While my area of expertise has been primarily focused in the secondary grades, one experience I relished was working in a community school. Stepping foot into Auer Avenue School was not something I did willingly. […]
Republican Senate Stands in the Way of Moving America Forward
By Jesse Jackson Americans are disgusted that Washington has become dysfunctional, even as Americans struggle with ever greater challenges — from stagnant wages and growing inequality to catastrophic climate change to soaring health-care costs to a decrepit and dangerously aged infrastructure. President Donald Trump blames House Democrats, saying they are “getting nothing done in Congress.” […]
When the Ditchdigger Comes
By LaKeshia Myers Mahalia Jackson is quoted as saying, “If you dig one ditch you better dig two cause the trap you set just may be for you.” How fitting was it that I reflected on this saying this week as the House of Representatives officially launched its impeachment inquiries. As the public continues to […]
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Did you know that there were two Emancipation Proclamations? Okay, technically one was called the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It’s the proclamation that most of our textbooks leave out of our history lessons. It is the proclamation that is least understood. It is the proclamation that, had things gone […]
Diversity in Agriculture is the Key to Success
By LaKeshia Myers Wisconsin farmers have been in the news recently. While recent publications have focused on explaining the hardships and losses in the field, little has been written to underscore the lack of diversity that exists in agriculture. Of the two million farms in the United States, nearly ninety-eight percent are operated by families […]
Can America Break its Gun Addiction?
By Jesse Jackson After mass shootings in Southaven, Mississippi; Dayton, Ohio; and Midland, El Paso and Odessa, Texas, public demand for sensible gun reform once more soared. And once more, Republican politicians, led by President Donald Trump, were intimidated into inaction by the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association. Remarkably, it was America’s […]
The Human and Economic Toll of Gun Violence is Staggering
The Human and Economic Toll of Gun Violence is Staggering By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Approximately 7,500 African Americans are killed each year because of gun violence. Further, it’s 20 times more likely that a young black male will die by a firearm homicide than a white peer, according to a new […]
1.3 Billion Tons of Food Being Wasted Each Year
By Deborah Netburn Los Angeles Times Across the planet, more than a billion tons of essential, nutritious, life-sustaining food goes to waste each year. It is being eaten by weevils in sub-Saharan Africa and inadvertently passed over by harvesters in the rice fields of Southeast Asia. It gets scraped into the trash in restaurants in […]
The Dangerous Bipartisan Enthusiasm for Drug Price Controls
By Sandip Shah For years, politicians have railed about the high cost of prescription drugs. But now, they appear poised to take action. Democrats and many Republicans want to impose price controls on medicines. One proposal would allow patients to import price-controlled medicines from Canada. Another would allow federal bureaucrats to effectively dictate the price […]
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