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  • Uncommon Courtesy

    Sara S. Frear

     In the early 1990s I worked for a foster care agency in New York City.  It was my job as a “homefinder” to interview potential foster parents and assess whether they could provide a nurturing home for traumatized children.  The work was an intimate education in human nature, from its most generous to its most…

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  • Why We Need the Electoral College

    Why We Need the Electoral College

    The Electoral College has fallen out of favor ….. again.  Not since 2000 have so many people felt that the democratic will of the people has been overridden by an anachronistic institution that must be replaced.  But calls to abolish the Electoral College overlook three important features of an institution that serves to protect federalism,…

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    Chris Hammons

    December 6, 2016
  • “Telling It Like It Is”: The Alley’s “A Night With Janis Joplin” Rocks the House

    “Telling It Like It Is”: The Alley’s “A Night With Janis Joplin” Rocks the House

      A few years ago I saw “Love, Janis” at The Alley Theatre.  It was one of the best things I had ever seen there, and I didn’t want it to end. The actress channeled Janis Joplin and her songs with aplomb, and it was one of the most successful runs in the history of…

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    Doni M. Wilson

    August 24, 2016
  • Mom The Theologian

      Recently my sister passed along to me a curious artifact from the history of our family: one of our mother’s college blue book exams, dated November 26, 1946. The school is Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas, now a university of the same name. The course is “Religion”. Virginia Cerna was then just nineteen years old–a…

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    Anthony M. Joseph

    August 12, 2016
  • Are You Not Entertained?

    Critics of Donald Trump have once again underestimated a candidate whose hallmark seems to be overcoming the odds.  There’s a growing chance that when the sun comes up on January 21, 2017, President Trump may be seated in the oval office, bent on making American great again. Cruz and Kasich have conceded that neither can…

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    Chris Hammons

    April 27, 2016
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