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By PENNY FLETCHER It’s a wonderful thing to co-exist with neighbors who are different from us but when did sending a Christmas card or lighting a menorah become a hate…
BY PENNY FLETCHER I don’t watch much television — maybe three or four times a week, max. There are just too many other things to do instead of sitting in…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN As of this writing there are few answers in the tragic bombing that took place near the end of the Boston Marathon on Monday, but the painful…
By NICK NARIGON Last July, about a month and a half after I moved to Japan, I was sitting in a training class on the eight floor of a Tokyo…
By NICK NARIGON On Thanksgiving weekend my wife Lisa and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. To make it special, Lisa took her first vacation in six months. Ever since…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN American writer and newspaperman Finley Peter Dunne once famously said that newspapers have the ability to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Indeed, in Dunne’s era…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN According to a recent article by the Associated Press, an estimated 60,000 U.S. veterans sleep on the streets at night. Veterans make up approximately 14 percent of…
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN I wrote some of this as an editorial for my newspaper in Iowa in 2008. Four years later, I feel the same message applies. Compromise has been…