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OpEd | Haunting taste of defeat makes me long for life Before COVID
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The day will come when B.C. will no longer denote a time before Christ. Human history has entered a period of irrevocable change unlike any since the birth of our Lord and Savior. I believe B.C. will eventually designate a…
Editorial | Plant a foundation of better nutrition to arm yourself with a healthier you
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A new year presents us with many possibilities. And it’s a perfect time to turn over a new leaf, which is exactly what we’re doing at the Community Word. The esteemed Clare Howard has handed off her handle on the…
OpEd | Right to choose disappearing under authoritarian cloak of minority rule
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The Supreme Court heard arguments on Dec. 1st in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to decide whether Mississippi’s law making most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy constitutes an undue burden on the right to abortion established in…
Editorial | Undermining local journalism hurts everyone
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Editorial | Undermining local journalism hurts everyone
Dear Gov. Pritzker, Legislature, City Council and others: We are losing independently-owned newspapers at an alarming rate. You say you value local journalism, but you undermine its very existence when you don’t return calls from reporters, don’t issue statements in…
OpEd | Qualified Immunity
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Here are statements concurring with the op-ed in the November issue of Community Word by Professor Joanna Schwartz, “Ending qualified immunity won’t ruin cops’ finances. It will better protect the public.” That piece was reprinted with permission from USA Today.…
Editorial | Abortion is healthcare, prioritize it over politics
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Editorial | Abortion is healthcare, prioritize it over politics
Religious objections to abortion are completely subjective and should not be the basis of public health policy. When Texas Republicans contend life begins at conception, they are conflating opinion and fact. Rabbi Fred N. Reiner states in a letter-to-the-editor in…
OpEd | Ending qualified immunity won’t ruin cops’ finances. It will better protect the public.
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This column is reprinted with permission from USA Today where it was originally published as part of a series examining qualified immunity. The project is made possible in part by a grant from Stand Together. BY PROF. JOANNA SCHWARTZ Congressional…
Eviction moratorium: the other half of the story
by Clare Howard • • Comments Off on Eviction moratorium: the other half of the story
It’s easy to understand workforce diversity helps with product development because it takes into account all demographic perspectives. Mazda neglected to take into account the Spanish population when it named a car model the Mazda Laputa. Laputa can be translated…
OpEd | Equity versus Merit
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In a June column in the PJS, George Will objected to progressives’ goal of equity, which he interprets as governmental efforts to improve the conditions of favored groups. He argued that “merit” is the antonym of “equity.” He agreed when…