by Helen Ubiñas We’ve spent much of the last few years dreading the possibility of coming into close physical contact with one another. And then, preparing ourselves for the moment when we might in order to protect ourselves from harm. But our concerns about those threats ...
At the time of this writing, there have been 164 mass shootings in the first 109 days of 2023. By the time this editorial is published, that number may have changed yet again. The last mass shooting to make headlines was March 27 at Covenant Presbyterian School in Nashville, Tenn., ...
Ending gun violence starts in our homes Do you want to stop gun violence? Do you want to eliminate school violence? Then let us start at the beginning and not the end. Violence starts in the broken homes of our communities, moves to our schools and eventually takes over our ...
by LZ Granderson The Alamo and the Riverwalk are the landmarks most associated with San Antonio, but they don’t tell you as much about the city as its nickname does: Military City, USA. It’s been called that since World War II. The largest joint base in our Department of Defense ...
by Rob Okun “Until people start to go into the streets and protest, we’re not going to see the changes … If you don’t have the people rising up, like what they did with civil rights, like what they did to end the Vietnam War … If you don’t have that, [politicians] are going ...
Pipeline’s pros can’t outweigh its cons A guest essay in Sunday’s Dominion Post (3-26-23) extolling the benefits of finishing the Mountain Valley Pipeline is so glaringly misleading that a response is required. The remaining unbuilt section would cross the Blue Ridge ...