Today I had a Zoom staff meeting as part of our final week of school professional development. Here’s how it went down. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. Naptime. The baby naps only in someone’s arms, so my husband takes her. The 3-year-old picks today of all days to refuse his nap. New challenge presented. […]
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Ron Chase: Senior revelations on the Dead River
The first time I canoed the Dead River thirty-five years ago, the dam release was 1,000 cubic feet per second (CFS). The seemingly huge waves, mammoth holes, and powerful currents were the most intimidating whitewater I had ever experienced. As is true with many aspects of life, one’s perspective changes over time. As the years […]
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Commentary: TikTok teens and the Trump campaign: How social media amplifies political activism and threatens election integrity
The lower-than-expected attendance at President Trump’s rally in Tulsa on June 20 was attributed, at least in part, to an online army of K-pop fans who used the social network TikTok to organize and reserve tickets for the rally as a means of pranking the campaign. Similarly, the historically unprecedented scale of the George Floyd […]
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Intertidal: Hooked on squid
It changed color right in my hand. It was a magical and unexpected moment. I was tide pooling with my girls at Potts Point a few years ago when one of them scooped up a rare treasure and asked me what it was. It was so small that I wasn’t sure at first. Then it […]
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Guest column: On Independence Day, Lou Gehrig said good-bye
Most Americans know Lou Gehrig’s tragic story. Fewer know how his widow, Eleanor, lovingly kept the baseball Hall of Famer’s memory alive for decades after his untimely death. At a stunned, capacity Yankee Stadium on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day in between a July 4 doubleheader, a gaunt Gehrig trudged slowly across the infield to the […]
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Letters: If stores want our business, masks should be enforced; Vote Daughtry
If stores want our business, masks should be enforced A survey conducted by the Southern Midcoast Chamber of Commerce found that over half the public is unlikely to go into stores, restaurants, gyms, etc. where staff and customers are not wearing masks. The message is clear, if retail establishments really want our business, they must […]
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Tom Purcell: We grow wiser by giving ourselves to the elderly
Pope Francis couldn’t have said it better. During Monday’s Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, he told the crowd not to toss out older family members like “discarded material.” He said “the solitude of the elderly” is “a tragedy of our times,” lamenting that “the life of children and grandchildren is not given as a gift to […]
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Guest column: We’re in this together
On the morning of March 16, I woke up at 5 in a sweat. This is a relatively normal occurrence for me as we prepare for St. Patrick’s Day, but this year was different. I immediately pulled up notification after notification about crowds of St. Patrick’s Day revelers in cities like Chicago and New Orleans. […]
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Guest column: There’s a reason opinions about Confederate statues have changed so quickly
What you think about removing Confederate statues has less to do with your opinions about race and more with how you perceive the motivation behind removing them in the first place. Jim Penniman-Morin, who majored in military history at West Point before serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, grew up seeing Robert E. Lee as a […]
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Guest column: Why can’t Trump be more like FDR?
A version of this previously appeared in The Baltimore Sun and is printed here with permission. Two days after Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt, a dynamic First Lady, flew from Washington to the west coast as co-leader of the Office of Civilian Defense to assure Americans of steadfast help in the coming crisis. In Los Angeles, […]