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Jun 24, 2025
Open Mic: Reflecting on ‘No Kings,’ a Protest from the Soul
Shouts and cheers, honking horns, people banging on drums. Oshkosh. No kings—at least not today. I’m with my sister...
Jun 17, 2025
Open Mic: When Going Through Hell, One Needs to Keep Going
People who I meet for the first time around our fine county often look at this face and ask,...
Jun 10, 2025
Open Mic: Without International Students, the U.S. Will Be Poorer
I sat spellbound. The man across the table was relating how he had wrangled his way into a detention...
Jun 3, 2025
Open Mic: To Form a More Perfect Union, Organized Labor Will Restore Democracy—Maybe
When ICE and other agencies began arresting and deporting immigrants this past January under Donald Trump’s orders, unions stepped...
May 27, 2025
Open Mic: Historic Moment. How Will We Respond Today?
A person escapes slave labor, torture, rape and murder, and illegally crosses a border to a land where such...
May 20, 2025
Open Mic: Say It Ain’t So, Ex-Prez Cover Up
President Joe Biden’s recent disclosure of an aggressive, metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis has cast a somber shadow over the...
May 13, 2025
Open Mic: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre, Ditch the Car for a Cause
Are Tesla owners complicit in Musk’s DOGE “chainsaw” massacre of hundreds of critical government programs?
The firing thousands of federal...