Nazis and nonviolence
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Contributor
In 1939, Nazi officials established gas chambers and began murdering tens of thousands of German citizens they considered “unfit.” The victims of the so-called “T-4” …
Tagged: us constitution
An open letter to the fascist regime attempting to take over our country
By Nishelle Gonzales
Reader Contributor
I have sat back and watched this new administration the last few months with horror and grief. I had a realization today that brings me …
I can’t in good conscience blame Trump
By Clarice M. McKenney
Reader Contributor
For more than 50 years I have voted Democrat, and most of those years I was unable to be an activist, be involved in …
Utah voucher law found unconstitutional, Idaho’s law is also vulnerable
By Ben Olson
Reader Contributor
A district judge in Utah issued a marvelous decision on April 18, finding Utah’s school voucher law to be unconstitutional. The 60-page decision was based …
Do you believe in the Constitution?
By Timothy Braatz
Reader Staff
The U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, is a brief instructional manual, sketching out a federal government, what it can and cannot do — a barebones …
A Few Thoughts… On what we have now
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. …
A short history lesson on ranked-choice voting
By Jim Jones
Reader Contributor
The opponents of Proposition 1, the Open Primaries Initiative, have been making uninformed claims about this game-changing voting reform. Dorothy Moon, the head of the …
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