In contemporary American politics, talk of secession is rarely more than theater. Political leaders tease—sometimes bellow—the idea as a reaction to unfavorable election results, the prospect of big-ticket legislation with which they disagree, meat for ...
The Corporation for New Jersey Local Media sent out a holiday message highlighting the comments of Nancy Verga, a councilwoman in Morris Plains. “Local media outlets are vital to maintaining our sense of shared community and culture,” ...
Everywhere we live can be as large (or as small) as we wish it to be. We control the definition and depth of what, between ourselves, we call “my little town.” Norwich, as cities go, ...
Public high schools in the Illinois Valley are ahead of the curve when it comes to teaching media literacy in the classroom. After a new requirement was passed in Illinois to require media literacy instruction ...
As students research and write a term paper for teacher Dane Erbach’s English I class at McHenry High School’s Lower Campus, Erbach writes a paper along with them. He’s learned from his students, too, about ...
When Dane Erbach was in middle school during the mid 1990s, before the information superhighway rolled through, students turned to library books and encyclopedias for facts. Today, students are likely to get their information first ...
When Lori Chavez-DeRemer won a second congressional seat for Oregon Republicans last week, national pundits had an easy answer: Conservative Democrat Kurt Schrader would have won if he hadn’t lost his primary to a more ...
The sun sets on the Arizona State Fair on Oct. 8. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) November 2, 2022 at 11:33 a.m. EDT Comment on this story Comment Ah, the state fair. It’s as American as ...
‘Booster Troop’ Created by Black and Latinx Doctors, Educators, and Emmy Award-winning TV Writers SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Founded by two black doctors who tired of watching patients who looked ...