Yearly Archives: 2008

Caring for our parents: Planning, understanding and love required

My grandfather, William Curtis, knew daily hardships, privation and difficulty as a farmer in the Ozarks of Missouri, near Fort Leonard Wood. The community...

Clarksville for Obama MySpace page up; volunteers ready for presidential race

The Clarksville for Obama campaign team officially launched its MySpace page website to allow national and local supports of presidential candidate Barack Obama to...

ACLU-TN Students’ Rights Conference

Youth In Action: Know Your Rights, Make Some Change is the topic of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee's fourth-annual Students' Rights Conference,...

NEHS students grapple with loss of a friend; MySpace suicide blog says “goodbye”

"Goodbye every 1." With those words with the numeric '1' displayed in a small black-bordered box on the social networking website, MySpace,  a boy said...

APSU to host Ensler’s Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues will be presented at APSU Clement Auditorium on Feb. 26-27 at 7 p.m. Admission is $5.00. One in three women are raped,...

Sticker shock: Regular gas hits $3.07

Oil prices reached an all time high today, topping $100 a barrel. It didn't take long for that price to impact the consumer market:...

Justice requires accountability, responsibility, action

We read in the local media daily about the plight of citizens across America. Headlines, featuring epitaphs that describe the demise of democracy as...

Homelessness: It can happen to anyone

According to a recent point in time survey by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there are an estimated 740,000 experiencing homelessness at any...

In the Name of God: Immersion in Eastern culture, Islam and suicide bombings

In the Name of God came across my desk by request from the author, Paula Jolin, who asked me to take a look at...

DAC hosts Doug Halloran’s “Sidetracked”

"SIDETRACKED: Something that causes a diversion from the original subject or activity." This is the title of a new solo art exhibit by...

Most Read