Opinion

Hope House of South Central WI has partnered with our school to provide meaningful, age-appropriate prevention programming for middle school students focused on promoting healthy relationships, addressing harmful social behaviors, and preventing teen dating violence.

In a childhood absolutely soaked in anxiety I did what any industrious kid would do and I found solutions. Solutions to the inevitable and myriad problems facing the anxious life.

Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) threatens to cut funding to San Marcos if the city embargoes Israel.

It's important to note that in 2021, two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa, Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel, co-authored an op-ed concluding that Israel had become an apartheid state.

Art Naebig's May 1 fair warning about President Trump is as tiresome as those we've had to endure for the past 10 years.

Life feels more precarious than it used to. That's partly because I'm old and life IS more precarious. But part of my insecurity comes from places that surprise me. In the past, I spent very little time thinking about government services like FEMA and the FDA and the EPA and NOAA (the weather folks.)

Didn’t we just celebrate Easter? How did graduation arrive so quickly?

High school graduation still is one of the best days of my life, and I hope it is too for all this year’s graduates.

So here’s some encouragement from someone who’s experienced a whole lot of good and bad stuff. Hopefully, I can dispel a few myths, too.

We’ve all experienced the upsetting phenomenon of being “pushed out.” Remember that recent office meeting when somebody would not stop dominating the conversation? Or that time at school when some big kid pushed you off the swing set? It feels unfair, even unsafe.

The spider that once lived my sink in the bathroom is long gone. I left it to grow and make its home in the high corner because bugs, you see, are important and I’ve been reading that they are in crisis. (Don’t get all technical on me. Spiders are bugs in my vocabulary.)

Without playing Democrats and Republicans, would anyone care to take time and effort to sift past the hot air of propaganda, searching and logically comprehending the long-term benefits vs the short-term pain of Tariffs?  President Trump said up front, there will be pain.