| Jun 26, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my sisters and me a better life. She worked hard to make sure we had food on our table and a roof over our heads, often doing two and three jobs at a time. ...
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| Jun 19, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyJudging by its first six months, 2019 has been a banner year for marijuana policy reform. Most notably, lawmakers in Illinois legalized the commercial production and retail sale of cannabis to adults. The state is the 11th to legalize the use of marijuana by those...
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| Jun 5, 2019 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityNews about climate change has been so spooky for so long that it can feel like background noise. We find a way to carry on like normal, even when the news is disquieting. Well, let me tell you I’m having a moment when it’s hard to do that. For me the trigger was a...
| May 28, 2019 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyLet us now contemplate the morality tale of the Good Samaritan. Not the one in the New Testament, but the one out in the high desert region around Marfa, Texas, just 60 miles from the Mexican border. It’s the story of Teresa Todd, the city attorney in Marfa. On...
