BY STEPHANIE FOX At the February NENA board meeting, three new projects, designed to help residents beautify their neighborhood, were approved. Grants to improve curb appeal, matching grants to create butterfly and pollinator friendly boulevard strips and an expansion of the community garden at St. James Episcopal Church were given…
BY POLLY MANN The Guardian Weekly is a British publication and therefore its criticism of the British government has a greater impact than that, say, of an American newspaper. Thus its criticism of that country’s arms shipments to Yemen is important. The question I ask is, why shouldn’t Great Britain sell…
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Perhaps unlike any other social movement, American feminism seems forced to argue continually for its relevancy. The history books put the movement into “waves,” such as first-wave feminism in which women argued for their right to vote. As legal rights expand and social roles get redefined…
BY ADAM MICHAEL SCHENCK Literary echoes seem to have passed their high-water mark generations ago. Few quote Shakespeare anymore, and as an atheist I am disappointed that those with “sincerely held religious beliefs” (as Justice Samuel Alito put it in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby) often fail to quote the Bible…
BY AMY BLUMENSHINE Southside neighbors are organizing to challenge sex trafficking. Nearly 100 concerned citizens turned out in early February for the informational event at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, “Shining a Light in the Darkness: A Faith-Based response to sex trafficking.” Experts in “The Life,” either as survivors or interveners,…
BY MICHAEL LIVINGSTON Soon after President Trump took office General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told Congress that the U.S. faces a stalemate and needs several thousand more troops (New York Times, 2/10/2017, p. A3). The seemingly endless wars in the Middle East continue under Trump…
BY JOHN KARRIGAN As it has been for most of the 2016-17 winter, I am not finding many small birds in the park to write about. The backyard birds are doing well as usual. The regulars—Northern Cardinals American Goldfinches, Black-capped Chickadees, English Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers White-breasted…
