From the category archives:
IN 2008 the handbook, The New Rwanda: Prosperity and the Public Good, conceived and edited by Sondra Myers, was published to provide the text for a National Conversation on Prosperity and the Public Good. The creation of the handbook was a result of a recommendation from a roundtable discussion endorsed by Hi s Excellency President [...]
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Editor: On 9/11 we lost our innocence, we felt our vulnerability, and we went on. We engaged in two unwinnable wars that helped to cripple our economy and our confidence in ongoing upward mobility. Our politics has soured, descending into a relentless blame game, shamelessly cheered on and inspired by frighteningly brazen right-wing hawkers of [...]
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Nero fiddled; Rome burned. Are we following his playbook? Our Congress fiddled—at enormous cost to our nation. To date we’ve lost face, we’ve lost status and we’ve lost faith. Hope has been our long suit; we have to search to recover it—but recover it we must. This episode of our history shall pass but it will take much [...]
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As a good friend and enthusiastic supporter of Liz Randol, I was, of course, disappointed that she was not chosen as one of the Democratic candidates for the county commissioner’s position. But at the same time, as a citizen of this region, I was elated by the strong support—well deserved—that she received. My hope is [...]
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It is wondrous and mysterious that Egyptians overturned over 30 years of oppressive rule in less than three weeks. It appears to be spontaneous solidarity, but we know that the frustration was decades-old and the new media helped to give voice -collective voice – to that frustration. Still it is nothing short of miraculous that Egyptians of [...]
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Editor: Egyptians want tomorrow – a new day – and they want it now. They want to be citizens - in charge of their own destinies and the destiny of their nation. It was the American dream over 200 years ago – the reason for our deciding that we needed our independence – that we were not willing [...]
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Editor: The Arizona debacle is a tragedy that touches all of us. A cross section of people engaged in a discussion of public affairs in a public space – the quintessential democratic experience - were shot down by a deranged young man whose anger was fueled by the hate-mongering rhetoric of the times, and who had easy access [...]
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Editor: Edgar Gorke and I (Your Opinion, Dec. 29 and Dec. 19, respectively) are not the first and will not be the last to have opposing positions about our nation, its principles and the meaning of words. Progressive and perhaps even progress itself are negatives in his view; taxation is robbery and support for those in need is [...]
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Find the original op-ed piece here. Free to succeed Editor: Sondra Myers states in her Dec. 19 letter: “Many of us abhor the continuation of tax relief to the very richest people in our nation and we are right to abhor it – it is unspeakably unfair if we truly believe in the promise of ‘liberty and [...]
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Editor: Compromise is a highly charged word. Is it the essence of reason and the key to democracy – or is it a sellout of values – a capitulation? In fact we use the word both ways. The art of compromise – the willingness to forgo some of what you believe in for the good of [...]
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