| Dec 11, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP SubfeaturedI’ve been a postal clerk for 23 years, serving my customers in a public post office in Gresham, Oregon. As you might imagine, with the holidays fast approaching, it’s a busy time of year for us. Every day, I help my customers mail letters, cards, and packages across...
| Dec 5, 2018 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric hasn’t just infected U.S. politics. Now it’s made its way south of the border. As a caravan of hundreds of migrants arrive in Tijuana, some residents there have started taking up Trump’s ideology. Juan Manuel Gastélum, the...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedCancer kills. Every American knows that. What every American doesn’t know: Cancer is also helping some Americans become exceedingly rich. And these Americans will do most anything to keep their windfalls coming, even prey on the fragile psyches of the families cancer...
| Nov 20, 2018 | Editors Picks|Environment / HealthThe holiday season is upon us. As we dive into our annual shopping, there’s one little thing many of us turn a blind eye to: the massive amount of paper receipts we collect throughout the season. (Although, if you shop at CVS, you might already know those paper...
| Nov 14, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying to get his Jacksonville, Florida neighbor to go vote with him. The young neighbor, a high-school-dropout, had no interest. “Voting,” the young man declared, “doesn’t change anything.” Can Democrats use...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyThe weather has turned cool and crisp (or so I’ve heard… I’m in California, where it’s hot out and everything’s on fire). We’ve entered the time of year when soon we’ll get together with our loved ones, share a traditional...
