• Local nurses sign intent letters at Freeman’s annual Signing Day

    JOPLIN, Mo. — 40 local nurses signed their letters of intent to continue their journey in the medical field. It's a process -- just like athletes signing their letters of intent to play at the next level. Freeman Health System held their 4th annual Signing Day for graduate nurses that graduated from area nursing programs. []

  • Weather Drawing: Sure signs of spring

    Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch, P.O. Box 974, Brainerd, MN, 56401.

  • Letter: Pro-Palestinian speech crackdown is shameful

    Shame on Columbia University and its cowardly president for ordering the arrest of 100 students who were peacefully demonstrating for the rights of Palestinians. Thumbs down also to USC administrators for canceling the valedictorian speech of a highly qualified Palestinian student, allegedly due to unspecified concerns for safety. These are despicable attacks on academic freedom and the rights of students to express and exchange ideas.

  • Faculty condemn NYU response to encampment in letters to admins

    Over the last three days, dozens of faculty across multiple NYU departments and at the School of Law have sent letters to administrators condemning the university’s decision to authorize the arrests of protesters at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza. WSN obtained letters expressing support for the students and faculty arrested at the encampment This story Faculty condemn NYU response to encampment in letters to admins appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • Feyenoord director confirms interest in signing Bryan Gil

    Last week we brought you news that Eredivisie side Feyenoord was interested in signing Bryan Gil. Now the same outlet that first reported the interest is more or less confirming it. Dutch outlet 1908.nl has quotes from Feyenoord director Dennis te Kloese that just comes out and says it — we’re interested in the guy, and we think he’d be an asset at the club. I said this before, but the Eredivisie does feel like a league where Gil could get his career back on track. It’s less physical, but still...

  • Campus unrest draws condemnations from North Carolinians in Congress

    (The Center Square) – North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis called for expulsions and deportations. Reps. Virginia Foxx and Richard Hudson sought accountability. And U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, born to Jewish parents in Michigan just over 67 years ago about a decade after the Holocaust, offered words of encouragement as the Middle Eastern war between Hamas and Israel ignited conflict in the United States. Some of North Carolina's congressional delegation responded Monday...

  • Letter from London: Letters from Everywhere

    Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More

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    Stormy Daniels Signed 2018 Letter Denying Sexual Relationship with Trump?

    Daniels alleged she had sex with Trump after she met him in 2006.

  • Walk This Way: Reviewing Anne Braden’s Letters, Speeches and Writings

    Anne Braden (1924-2006) was a freedom fighter in the US South. She talked and walked left. Ben Wilkins’ book “Anne Braden Speaks” (Monthly Review Press 2022) is a collection of her path-breaking advocacy to form a mass movement to challenge and transcend the economic system and its handmaiden of the color line, e.g., Jim Crow More

  • Letters, April 14, 2024: 'PM has no interest in carbon-tax meeting'

    No meeting for PM It’s no surprise Trudeau is afraid to meet the premiers as demanded by parliament. Trudeau said he already had a meeting in 2016. Danielle Smith quite rightly pointed out none of today’s premiers were in office in 2016. BTW, who was Alberta’s premier at that meeting? None other than the infamous […]

  • White House Condemns ‘Antisemitic, Unconscionable and Dangerous’ Hate Speech at Columbia University

    The White House condemned the pro-Palestine protests as Columbia University as "antisemitic, unconscionable and dangerous."

  • Iranzi Revis of Palo Duro High School signs National Letter of Intent

    Palo Duro High School’s Iranzi Revis signs a National Letter of Intent to run track at Dodge City Community College in Dodge City, Kansas.