September 2012
September 14th, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility, Latest News with 0 Comments
Another September 11th passed this week, only to remind us that racial and religious hatred is not only alive but thriving around the world. Have we learned any lessons during the past decade?
When one looks at the deadly unrest taking place in the Middle East, allegedly, as a result of a film that denigrates the Muslim religion, it raises the necessity and urgency to mitigate if not eradicate...
September 13th, 2012
Written by Wendy Innes in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
In the United States, doctors diagnose women with some type of gynecological cancer every six minutes, which adds up to more than 83,000 new cases each year and over 27,000 women a year lose the battle. Gynecological cancers include uterine cancer (endometrial cancer), ovarian cancer, peritoneal cancer, fallopian tube cancer, cervical cancer, vaginal cancer, and vulvar cancer.
While the risk...
September 11th, 2012
Written by Russell Roberts in Cover Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
Religious prejudice is, unfortunately, a part of American presidential campaigns. Thomas Jefferson suffered it. Barack Obama suffers it, and Mitt Romney, a Mormon, may well suffer it. One man who suffered it worse than most is Al Smith – the first Roman Catholic presidential candidate.
With incumbent President Calvin Coolidge declining to run for re-election in 1928, Democrats probably thought...
September 10th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
On August 6, 2012, President Obama signed the “Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012.” The new law offers extended care to service members based at Camp Lejeune when contaminated water caused major medical issues, and the law prohibits protests at military funerals in the two hours immediately prior to a funeral.
However, a missing factor was the mention of...
September 6th, 2012
Written by Russell Roberts in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
As the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, Susan LaFlesche Picotte was a shining example to tribal members everywhere. She proved it was possible to lift oneself out of the morass of the reservation system and live a useful life. However, in proving that point, Picotte literally worked herself into an early grave.
Susan LaFlesche, born on June 17, 1865 in northeastern Nebraska...