Keeping Watch On Our Community
Teachers often wonder if the lessons they so laboriously plan and skillfully deliver will render any tangible results. The end of this 2019-2020 school year was abruptly halted due to the COVID-19 scare. This fact prompted teachers to dig deeply into their folders and recollections of teaching tools to continue their craft with their students in far different delivery modes and platforms.
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It is probably our atmosphere and world view here in the Deep South but, as I was engaged in a phone discussion with a fraternity brother of mine a while ago about the attitudes some of the Yankees (Northeasterners) and Californians (West Coast Libs) express towards their policer officers, the profound differences of our two regions became more pronounced.
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For the past week, we have witnessed another great American tragedy, which began as a justified protest of the death of a black American citizen at the hands of a white police officer. This tragedy has devolved into a series of rampages commandeered by some violent anarchists most of whom it is thought have come from outside of the plagued cities and are youngsters in their late teens or early twenties.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under
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Three points at the outset: 1) our knee-jerk reaction to the COVID-19 virus has been predicated on numbers given to
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We have been bombarded with all kinds of “statistics” during this COVID-19 panic. If we examine the real costs of this
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Yes, I know this column is going to ruffle a lot of feathers and some may wish to paint me
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This column may present as more apprehensive, even more anxious and fearful, than the intended optimism which I have sought
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Those of us who have had a full house these past few weeks as a result of the COVID-19 urgency
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One of the things I am most grateful for in my life is that for the last twenty-five years, more
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The stunning shock of horror, devastation and anger the United States experienced on Sept. 11, 2001, is something that is
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During the long moments of any “campaign” season – you know, that time when all else revolves around the invective
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Threats to our safety always force us to do some strange things which under non-threatening circumstances we would not even
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Recently there has been some discussion regarding our Nation’s Electoral College, which is a fundamental part of electing our President.
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When we begin to assess the importance of education, we cannot overlook the blessings of gaining a liberal education through
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The Super Bowl for this year was completed a month ago. And now, those of us who know that football
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Those of you who know me know I am no paragon of Christian behavior. I have often observed that, “Church
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It is probably more a function of my own predilections, but this time of year it seems as if there
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