I’m a New Yorker — a Manhattanite. After spending four months in my apartment sheltering in place, then witnessing the looting by opportunist and career criminals of businesses that were barely surviving due to being closed, it was time for me to leave my beloved city and get into ...

I am an anthropologist who studies educational systems and human learning. Those of us in this area of research know that human beings are not born racist. Rather, racism is learned, and racism is learned because it is given power by a status quo that values it. There has been much ...

Milfoil, an invasive aquatic plant, is growing in abundance in Lake Flower and Oseetah Lake. The milfoil is spreading. Information on milfoil can be found on the New York state invasive species website: http://nyis.info/invasive_species/eurasian-watermilfoil. The following is a quote from ...

Opening up in-person education during the coronavirus pandemic is considered a high-risk. An alternative is called remote learning. A more accurate label would be remote teaching; whether or not learning occurs is yet to be determined. Recent experience with remote teaching has demonstrated ...

Does it make sense, especially during a pandemic, to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare)? Donald Trump and the Republican Party evidently think so. Last month, the Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare. This case was originally brought by 18 ...

If the word “boogaloo” is not yet in your vocabulary, it is time to put it there ASAP. The Summer 2020 SPLC Report from the Southern Poverty Law Center describes it this way: “Many far-right extremists — including many in the anti-government movement — believe that the country is ...