This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Our home is burning. We can stand back and watch or we can put the fire out right now before the roof falls in...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
The Internet, that global source of instant information that is enlightening, horrifying, embarrassing, wrong, lifesaving – you get the idea – has changed the...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
“Some days I pinch myself that a city boy from Memphis can come back to Tennessee and manage the most visited national park in...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers March 13, 2019
One of the joys of living is looking in a dog’s eyes.
The cross-country team at St. Joseph High School in an ever-lovely California community...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota has had it up to here with oil companies and their “just one more pipeline” attitude....
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William Blair Anderson is Police Chief of St. Cloud, Minn., a town where eight people were injured last Saturday in a knife attack that...
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The Grizzly Bear is California’s state animal. Its likeness is on the state flag and seal.
This is not about grizzly bears, but it happened...
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Alaa Murabit is founder of Voice of Libyan Women, focused on using words, not guns, to achieve diplomacy, cooperation, peace and security.
Murabit is convinced,...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
A photo essay in Yes! Magazine titled, The Seed-Saving Farmers Who Pass Down Land to Their Daughters, showed how a matrilineal Khasi tribe passes on land...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Good works have an unspoken effect on those who do the giving as much as on those who receive. Sometimes it’s outside our comfort...