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Elizabeth Mirabal, third-year Spanish Ph.D student at the University, wrote “Herbarium” as a 205 page collection of free ...
Guam’s first female governor, Lourdes Leon Guerrero, has brought substantial improvements to the island population’s standard of living. When Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero assumed her position, she ...
More than 4,000 plant species live at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory — a wonder people of all ages discover when they first step inside the middle greenhouse on Kleiber Hall Drive. Typical with ...
Capital punishment is a dirty, rotten, stinking, nasty business. And we ought not be engaged in it. It is a remnant of a retrograde mentality. Long ago, the argument for its deterrence value went ...
Courtroom 600 in Nuremburg, Germany, was the site of war crime trials following World War II. I have visited Courtroom 600 twice to learn more about the 1945-46 trials of individuals charged with ...
The full letter can be downloaded here. In its letter, Simpson Oil details Parkland’s persistent track record of financial underperformance, strategic missteps, and sustained destruction of ...
When one person, culture or organization disallows another’s presence in their arena because priorities collide with their principles, this is not hate. Hate is to feel intense or passionate ...
Experiences in 4-H and with Extension programs vary and most individuals have their favorite area of activity. Sometimes one can become so wrapped up in their favorite Extension or 4-H activity ...
Richard Littlefield's recent letter to this newspaper revealed perhaps the greatest flaw in the Education Freedom Account program. His regular contributions to The Laconia Daily Sun testify to his ...
Measles is spreading across America. Only time will tell if it will hit Lancaster County, but we have no official county health department to prepare for it adequately, as Dr. Edward T. Chory ...
Not at all! He’s also not a polished politician. Not a social justice warrior. Not even a card-carrying member of the ruling class, the elite, the uni-party, the upper class, the ...
When friends ask who persuaded me to support the Botanical Garden of the Piedmont, I reply that no encouragement was needed, I always knew Charlottesville lacked this urban amenity. Here we have a ...