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We are sad that innocent people die all over the world each day. In the United States, we have the National Rifle Association. The NRA and the powerful gun lobby in America are destroying our nation. Every day, people kill other people in cities and towns all over the country. Yes, we do have the […]
The sad ongoing events at Penn State, in my opinion, continue to highlight the principal problem in collegiate athletics. The main purpose of institutions of higher learning is higher learning. The emphasis on athletics, unfortunately, has resulted in distortion of this aim, sometimes with disastrous consequences as at Penn State, but the examples of Ohio […]
The issue: Ironically, Paterno and Company’s desire to avoid negative publicity has generated nothing but that Before dawn on Sunday, workers showed up at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium, put up a chain-link fence to keep spectators at bay and draped the fence in a blue tarp to block TV cameras. They then proceeded to jackhammer […]
By John Young Farm-to-school programs combine public health and agricultural marketing objectives with the potential to change the way young people eat, think about food and improve their health through development of lifelong healthy eating habits. Farm-to-School Yolo is a three-year program that will link Yolo County agriculture with the National School Lunch Program, which […]
It’s time for citizens to take power into our own hands. Let’s move away from the too-big-to-fail megabanks and use our locally owned banks and credit unions. Congress has been unwilling to act and reregulate the too-big-to-fail megabanks. Instead, they have given 16 trillion of our taxpayer dollars to the banks. The banks have continued […]
