A fitting Labor Day! Some call it a coincidence, but we view it as a salute — intended or otherwise. Today is Labor Day, an accepted holiday that honors the American worker. In Cleveland, it falls on the same date as ...
Literacy is an answer to many questions about society There is an old Chinese Proverb that goes, “If you are planning for one year sow rice. If you are planning for a decade plant trees; but, if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” Our f...
Drawing a line in the sand Refreshing. Perhaps another word is more eloquent, but “refreshing” first came to mind upon learning last week of the decision by Whirlpool Corporation to build a new $120 million manufacturing fa...
BICC Part 3: Multicultural festival, credit union first to emerge (Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks, new and existing programming offered through the Bradley Initiative for Church and Community Inc. will be featured in this column space on the Editorial Pa...
It was a real mystery of a night at the big museum The gallery attendant turned the corner of the long hallway and stopped short. The sunlight from the glass doors seemed to mock her as it glinted off the very spot that currently held nothing. De...
It’s an ‘Ace’ in the hole Editorially supporting a specific Cleveland and Bradley County area business is not a common practice, but when a store reaches out to the community on behalf of an organization like United Way of...
Roy Smith: A good man Even if you disagree occasionally with another person’s political views, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a strong respect for their moral convictions.
JA and financial literacy Thomas Edison is credited with the belief that “opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Losing a man of vision It takes vision to understand the importance of bringing people together … especially when their ideas differ, and even more critically when those ideas involve religion, faith and denominat...
A soldier remembered “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” Many believe the origin of this wise prophecy to be a Senegalese proverb. Most any country where it is a belief could perhaps stake the same ...
