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Childcare, Where It’s Been, Where It’s Going
Gloria Riviera’s mom took a job to support the family while her husband worked on his degree. It was the 1960s, and she’d never heard the word “daycare,” so she…
Read MoreA Roundup of Reviews
With the election weeks away, it’s time to make sure you’re registered to vote, to know where to go and to make a plan for either voting early or when…
Read MoreYou My Not Have Heard These Stories
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” For millenia, most women’s stories slipped into anonymity or oblivion, such that half of…
Read MoreFor Women’s History Month midwifery then and now
Happy Women’s History Month! We turn to one of the oldest professions for women, relevant in a county where maternal healthcare options have been decreasing. “Midwifery is an ancient practice,…
Read MoreVoting Rights: Today’s LWVs And The 1972 Party Platforms
This is part two of a series testing the claim that the LWV 2023 stances have remained stable for decades as evidenced by comparing to the GOP and Dem Party…
Read MoreIn Perspective: Is LWV Liberal?
On Sept. 30, our local League of Women Voters of Montgomery County hosted presidents from other Leagues statewide, during which one president shared that some non-League people believe the League…
Read MoreAWL Needs You To Help All Creatures Great And Small
“I’m a very tough person, but in this job, I cry a lot. Sometimes, though it’s happy tears,” said Nickee Sillery, medical director for the Animal Welfare League. “Like I…
Read MoreHow And Why To Decarbonize Your Home: A Profile Of John Smilie
John Smilie remembers learning in the fourth grade that most of the world’s energy came from non-renewable sources and one day they’d run out. Yet as he grew up reading…
Read MoreLWV: We Cannot Have Too Much Subsidized Housing: Part 2
Ever had a season of life that you thought might break you? Chances are you were living through multiple life stressors, any of which strain a person but when piled…
Read MoreHousing And Jobs: A Tightrope Balance And Indicator Of Community Health
Housing and job “shortages are two sides of the same coin,” wrote Ben Winck and Andy Kiersz for Business Insider in 2021. “Cities with the most job openings don’t have…
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