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Even in Hollywood, Native American women are missing

Native American women are 10 times more likely to be raped, murdered or experience violence than any other race in the USA. According to some reports murder is the third leading cause of death for Native women, spurring awareness campaigns such as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s movement, often represented on social media with the hashtag #MMIW.

It’s time to come to the aid of wildland firefighters

By mid-September, there was no one left to call. The West, with its thousands of federal, state, and local fire engines and crews, had been tapped out.

A Thanksgiving parallel: Wampanoag still fighting for their land and lives

Disinformation and outright lies flooding our media have darkened our vision. Getting past Thanksgiving invites us through our fears directly into this darkness.

Part 2: Limited internet and unlimited distractions plague online student learning

Our local internet connectivity options are bad; there are no ifs ands or buts about it.

Protocol, politeness, patience and compromise

It seems that almost anybody watching someone work believes they can do the job as well or better than the person who is actually doing it, especially if the person watching has never done it before.

Light Defeats Darkness

With Thanksgiving we are now approaching Advent, the season of the year celebrating the end of the darkness of oppression and sin. The birth of Jesus brought the Light of Christ into the world. Now we are suffering a pandemic of darkness, disinformation, disease, depression and death. Our President has actively tweeted encouragement to our longstanding distrust of science and medicine. Our President does not shine light on the truth of our suffering. He encourages disinformation.

Part 1: Arguments for in-person teaching

Our local hospitals are overwhelmed with the amount of COVID-19 cases, new infections are springing up daily, and entire classrooms were even being placed on quarantine.

The people have ‘smoken’ with legal marijuana

With the passage in Montana of I-190 we have joined California, Washington, Oregon, and a few other “liberal” states in making the purchase and use of marijuana jail-time free. It has been about 100 years since its use became a social stigma, then illegal in the United States.

A blended family is becoming the American family

When “All in the Family” hit the TV screens in 1971, the war in Vietnam was raging, cities from Washington, D.C., to Detroit were charred from riots in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, and many young people like me were leaving those cities, moving west to rural America.

Incendiary disinformation, conspiracy theories, and the tiny flame of truth

The most dangerous of the growing American disinformation business tells us not to trust our elections. We could be on the road to losing our democracy and moving into repeating the chaos and destruction of the race riots of the 60s.