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A Round Up Of Objections To HB
Disclosure: I try to keep my persona out of most League columns, but as an educator for the past eighteen years, I cannot. Like most educators, I have stories of…
Read MoreThe League Of Black Women
The League of Black Women is not in the Marvel-verse, but you will marvel. These women helped save the world through poetry, advocacy, ministry, activism, and flight. One even escaped…
Read MoreSmall town challenge: Mental health of Black women
“Everybody has business they need to unload and spill,” said Erika Frazier. For her, it’s grief, the end of her marriage, the stress of being her parents’ caregivers and the…
Read MoreWhy join the League of Women Voters
Now is always a good time to join the League of Women Voters. If you are like me, you’ve waited, maybe because of young kids, a career, school, a bevy…
Read MoreMicro-homing could transform housing, even here
“Imagine a combat vet in his small town where there’s low crime and a high military population. He should fit into the community, but he’s unhomed. He has a disability…
Read MoreAgreeing to Disagree, How Local Leaders Lead
When the street department announced it would put a four-way stop just around the corner from Dari-Licious at Oak and Market streets, a Facebook acquaintance lamented that he’d not attended…
Read MoreWe are still here
“I am a Hoosier born and raised,” wrote Beth Saligugi Elam, “but first and foremost I am Chickamauga Cherokee and descendant of the Powhatan Confederacy. I would like White Hoosiers…
Read MoreGifting – A thrifty plan for the holidays
“When do you open your Christmas presents?” When David Sedaris asks in an essay about international Saint Nicholas traditions, he links when families open gifts with how many gifts they…
Read MoreHow to be a local leader
“A good man is hard to find,” wrote Flannery O’Connor. The League of Women Voters would reword this: A good human is hard to find, especially one who wants to…
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