It’s understandable that many of the columns and examinations of President Jimmy Carter’s life focus on his accomplishments after he left office and on his character. This is, of course, in part because his tenure as president came with many missteps and shortcomings. We recognize it may ...
America’s public health could be at risk if the incoming administration doesn’t correct some of the campaign rhetoric that may have helped Donald Trump win an election but has no merit now that voting is over. For example, inaccurate comments about water fluoridation that prospective U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has not taken back. “Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease,” Kennedy said in a November social media post in ...
A couple who cares for those struggling most in our communities. A man who overcame his own struggles to help his neighbors afflicted with many of the same struggles. Firefighters and first responders who came to the aid of their communities even as their own lives and work were threatened by ...
Political news website Politico reports that the Trump transition efforts are using private email systems to communicate and plan President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House. We believe the use of private email systems by public officials to conduct the responsibilities of ...
President Joe Biden used his pardon power in mid-December as the Constitution’s framers had intended: as a pre-Christmas act of mercy. He commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people who were released to home confinement during the pandemic and whom the president believes have successfully readjusted into society. He pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes, such as drug offenses, following a case-by-case review of their applications. This is a stark contrast to Mr. Biden’s ill-considered pardon of his son Hunter and to the misguided notion, still under discussion within ...
A debate in Philadelphia, chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer, has caught our attention and, we feel, highlights the risks when a desire for historic preservation teeters too far to an extreme. Calvary United Methodist Church, in Philadelphia’s Cedar Park neighborhood, recently was ...
