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Have you ever complained about the streets, or the blight, or the state of housing…or any other number of infrastructure needs facing Miami? Miami is just one week, and 141 surveys short of receiving nearly a quarter of a million dollars in federal funding from HUD. The deadline for getting …
Op-Ed/Letters
December, 2019
November, 2019
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15 November
The Power and Glory of Admitting You’re Wrong
Admitting you’re wrong can be one of the best ways to look good and impress people. Years ago, I was talking to my boyfriend, John, on a cordless phone, while a summer storm thundered outside. He told me we should hang up because I might get electrocuted if lightning struck …
October, 2019
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17 October
I’m Not Lazy,Indecisive, or Unmotivated
I have executive dysfunction. When I was a kid, my friends called me “wishy washy” because I never had a preference about how to spend our after-school time. Growing up, I never actually chose a career — the decision seemed so complicated. I went to college as an “undecided” major, …
September, 2019
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13 September
#1 Piece of Advice: Just Keep Going
Harriet Tubman, the American abolitionist and activist, said it before I did: “Don’t ever stop. Keep going.” Tubman was speaking to escaped slaves she was helping get to the North via the Underground Railroad. “If you want a taste of freedom, keep going,” she said. Tubman had escaped from slavery …
August, 2019
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26 August
Everyone Wins with Workforce Equality
Economy Poised to Skyrocket with Gender Equity By Sue Marceau The Labor Day holiday we salute with festivities marking the end of summer emerged from employee dissatisfaction with deplorable working conditions. The labor movement’s fight for laws protecting workers began long before the commemoration became a national holiday in1894. Today’s …
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19 August
Allow Yourself to Question and Revise Your Own Beliefs
It’s inevitable that in your development as a human being, you will come to believe things you don’t currently believe. And you will stop believing things that you currently do believe. You will change your beliefs about yourself, your life, the world, other people, your relationships, your job and work, the universe — practically every aspect …
July, 2019
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13 July
ERA Ratification Signifies Vote for Family
By: Sue Marceau Speak up for women in the crusade for amends to people whom society has exploited and neglected. If anyone or any group deserves compensation for evils committed against them by men in power, women stand front and center. Females represent more than half of the nation’s population …
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12 July
What I Would Tell You About Life If I Died Today
I’m writing this from a hotel room in Peel, a tiny town on the west coast of the Isle of Man. This morning I had breakfast watching the Irish Sea wash the beach just steps from the hotel’s front porch, and tonight I plan to sit on a bench on …
June, 2019
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25 June
Barcon weighs in (again) on TCRSD project
Note: This Op-Ed was published in the Copper Country and incorrectly identified Sandy Palmer with the IDA, and not Fred Barcon as a local contractor, as the author. The SilverBelt will post a correction online and retraction next week. This is the correct Op-Ed by Fred Barcon, who has written …
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13 June
For Father’s Day, Give Your Father Equality – It’s Good for Him.
Toxic masculinity relates to the definitions of masculinity that has been taught to boys for decades and harms them today: don’t be a sissy; be strong and silent; wealth, power, status, and risk-taking define a man. Today, none of that advice is good for men, good for society, or conducive to good mental or physical health.
