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With each new shooting, in one city after another, I try to maintain hope that this will be the tragedy that wakes us up from our shameful national nightmare, opening the eyes of our politicians to the fact, that maybe – just maybe –the policies they are championing are making things worse instead of better. - Many Republican leaders and their media outlets made announcements strongly encouraging their constituents and listeners to get vaccinated. It was like they all received an email stating that it was time to change their messaging.
- Letters to the editor of the Carroll County Times
- A decision to spend $13 million on more than 325 acres of land along Route 140 near Reese is not what it seems at first glance. Come to think of it, this isn’t even the first glance: The county essentially considered buying the same plot of land 15 or so years ago and decided against it.
- Like any self-respecting socialist, Senator Sanders, who prefers to be called a “Democratic Socialist,” is a millionaire.
- The long and short of the problem is, Carroll County has left itself at the mercy of federal and state mandates about what we do with the tons of trash generated every day. We have taken the short view, and it will cost us in the long run.
- It seems that some Republicans are starting to think that their place in history may be more important than their allegiance to a former one-term president and his Big Lie about winning a second term.
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- Letters to the editor of the Carroll County Times.
- We must recognize once and for all that slavery never was a race issue; it has always been about the depraved heart of those — Black and white — who value power and wealth over human life.
- That pancake collapse of a building in Florida is an allegory for issues across the nation, in every town and county where people are constructing buildings, driving roads, and crossing old bridges.
- A gentleman recently told me that he wasn’t going to get vaccinated because, despite the hundreds of millions of folks who have done so safely, he knew better.“ I read about it and know how dangerous the vaccine is,” he told me. I learned years ago that you can’t have a discussion with these folks, and they are not going to change their minds.
- Letters to the editor of the Carroll County Times
- Half the country considers anyone who doesn’t agree with them a “heretic.” ... And the other half, tired of being constantly told they are horrible people living in a horrible country. ... I’m beginning to think you can take this political correctness stuff too far.
- Regarding Ms. Sprinkle’s recent column attacking Americans who criticize or nonviolently protest America as being unpatriotic is at best uninformed.
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- Teaching our children about this history is not teaching racism or teaching our children to hate America. We can love America and address issues of injustice.
- Letters to the editor of the Carroll County Times.
- There’s no other country like America. As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.”
- Studies have shown how important it is that minority students have teachers who look like they do, but the value of having a diverse faculty goes beyond the benefit to minority students alone.
- This is one reason, among many, why the Church is losing so many followers, especially young people, who see no value in belonging to a church led by hypocritical men whose conservative politics blinds them from following the path of Christ.
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- Carroll County fire companies are close to becoming more about government, if not less about community service. As usual with change, it will be coming too soon for the traditionalists, and not quickly enough for those invested in a different definition of quality of life.
- Voter suppression laws being passed today are further examples of systemic racism and are also a threat to our democracy.
- The Historical Society of Carroll County will once again transform its popular annual Legacy Gala into a virtual affair in the interest of COVID-19 caution. The annual fundraising event on June 26 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. is free to all with access to an internet connection or Comcast Channel HD 1086.
- It would seem that what CRT has accomplished to this point in our schools is imbuing America’s children in a vicious cycle of racism. The white child is an oppressor who needs to be continually reminded of his “white guilt,” and the Black child is stymied in his quest for success by the “whiteness” of his oppressive environment.
- After my last column, four readers responded with letters to the editor. One of them was thoughtful. The other three not so much. None, however, while seemingly taking exception to my thoughts on CRT addressed that subject. Three of the four letters engaged only in attempted personally demeaning remarks.
- Lions Quest, Lions Clubs International Foundation’s social and emotional learning program, teaches children decision-making skills, communication skills, and how to say no to drugs and alcohol.
- Letters to the editor published in the June 19 edition of the Carroll County Times.
- It was so rewarding to see the students actively participating using Pear Deck for Google Slides. Ninety percent of the teens indicated that our presentation helped them better understand how to build a healthy relationship. They used descriptors like: helpful, amazing, reliable, educational, informative, fun and interactive. It was fun for us, too!
