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Mar 29 2023
News
Resisting the Impulse of Self-Optimization
As a Singaporean, I grew up immersed in a national culture defined by stress.
These instincts were arguably more learned than anything else—my Malaysian father and South Korean mother moved to the country from the United States in the 1990s. So much of how I grew up was shaped by the intensity of Singapore’s academic culture, shuttling between exam-heavy course loads, afterschool
Christianity Today
Feb 11 2023
Opinion
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.
For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases
The Free Press
Jan 08 2023
News
Appeal Of Building Inspector Decision In Central Nyack: Meetings
NYACK, NY — As the new year begins, our local officials are still busy conducting the public's business in plain sight.
John Adams famously wrote, "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right … and a desire to know."
There are plenty of upcoming chances to help tend to our democracy close to the roots. Here are town and school board
Patch.com
Feb 15 2023
News
Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron sentenced to life in prison, telling families 'I did a terrible thing'
The White man who pled guilty to killing 10 Black people and wounding three others in a hate-fueled mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, last year was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.
Payton Gendron was read his punishment in Erie County Court after pleading guilty in November to charges including murder and domestic terrorism motivated by hate in
Fox News Digital
Dec 29 2022
News
Teen-on-teen crime part of troubling spike in NYC youth violence
A growing number of New York City kids are getting shot — and other youngsters are the ones pulling the trigger in the majority of such cases, police data shows. Just this week, a 17-year-old girl was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in the Bronx. Young Prince Shabazz was slain while walking with his 15-year-old brother in Fordham Heights on Nov. 30 over what
New York Post (News)
Feb 20 2023
News
1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals
There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at 4-years-old, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing intense courses of radiation and chemotherapy. He thinks that plays a part in why so much of his childhood is "hazy."
Forgetting after all, is a side effect of trauma.
But one moment
NPR (Online News)
Jun 12 2022
News
Senators Reach Framework for Legislation Addressing Gun Violence
Senate negotiators said Sunday they reached a bipartisan framework on measures intended to limit some access to firearms, paving the way for the broadest federal legislation on guns in decades.
The proposal, after weeks of push and pull in the wake of mass shootings last month at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, is narrower than what many Democrats
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 14 2023
News
Gunman kills 3, then himself at Michigan State University
A gunman who opened fire at Michigan State University killed three people and wounded five, setting off an hourslong manhunt as frightened students hid in classrooms and cars. The shooter eventually killed himself, police announced early Tuesday.
Officials do not know why the 43-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, targeted the campus. He was not a student or employee
Associated Press
Feb 03 2023
News
Pentagon Tracking Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Flying Over ‘Sensitive’ Sites On American Soil
The Department of Defense is tracking a suspected high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon that appears to be collecting data on sensitive U.S. sites, multiple defense officials said Thursday.
President Joe Biden was briefed regarding the surveillance balloon and requested military options, but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin after convening a meeting of senior leadership Wednesday
The Daily Caller
Aug 29 2022
News
With pandemic help ending, should states continue to feed all students?
Funding free meals for all students was a pandemic provision. But now that such programs are expiring, what should the next steps be to support learning and battle hunger for a wide range of students?
How do you make school meals more appealing? Try food trucks, smoothies, and farm-to-school recipes. Then make the food free for all students.
That strategy works in Chicopee, a
Christian Science Monitor