| Jun 25, 2025 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAcross the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are tearing families apart, terrorizing communities, and upending businesses. Mario Romero was among those arrested by ICE recently. His daughter, Yurien Contreras, witnessed ICE agents taking him...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAbove all, immigration is a moral issue. Most people leave their homelands to seek opportunity or safety when one or both is threatened in their homelands. They then enrich their adopted nations with their culture, cuisine, love, and dedication and are less likely to...
| Jun 11, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFor weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by. The GOP-controlled...
| May 14, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySocial Security is all that stands between millions of Americans and poverty in old age. Two-thirds of seniors would lose most of their income if Social Security payments ceased. One in seven have essentially no other income — and if their already modest Social...
| Apr 23, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI recall seeing a sign in a yard in my small hometown of around 12,000 residents. “No matter where you are from,” it said, “we’re glad you are our neighbor.” It was positioned defiantly, facing a Trump sign that had been plunged into the neighbor’s yard across the...
