Don’t look at the news today,
don’t read it
Stay away from Twitter and Facebook
Close your ears
I have seen it and it is
too terrible to bear
Don’t look at the news
Let one of us remain
Untouched by this latest horror
if only for today
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Today is Citizenship Day. Across the country, thousands of new citizens are swearing allegiance to this country and this dream. Last Tuesday, I saw 875 new citizens sworn in at the St. Paul River Center. They came from 91 countries, but now they are part of one country. More new citizens were sworn in on […]
The Wizard of Oz came to Duluth last Wednesday and it wasn’t a pretty sight. Hiding behind a curtain of presidential power, he pulled all the usual levers and set his supporters roaring “Build that wall!” and “USA!” Like the Wizard of Oz, Donald Trump is a small man with a big voice and loud […]
“If you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.”* The old quote has some truth in it, but if you want to remember the 1960s (which really ran over into the 1970s), Dianna Hunter has a book for you. She will be at the East Side Freedom Library on June 19 to read from […]
My recycling is staying right in Minnesota. CORRECTION 6//19/18 – Eureka has not shipped to China since 2013. After a friend pointed me to a New York Times article saying that recycling is going into landfills, because China has closed the door on U.S. garbage imports, I double-checked. Yes—Minneapolis and St. Paul recycling still stays […]
“They’re not people, these are animals,” Trump says. He says they are pouring into the country, committing vicious, brutal crimes, terrorizing Long Island. He lies. The New York Daily News reported that even his own administration members don’t back his claims: “Carla Provost, the acting chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, noted during Senate testimony […]
Mary Turck