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....

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Pictures of strangled dolphins, whales and tuna have been printed worldwide recently. Big fish with so much plastic in and around them, their organs...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Not Without Us is a documentary film that will be shown right here in Happy Town, Friday night at the Aud, and we think...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

The Germans are following the Dutch and the Danes, and that would be a good line to get in. These countries are building bikebahns connecting...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Kids are doing remarkable things. In past issues we’ve featured teenagers who insisted on doing things their way – saving part-time paychecks to buy...

This Week’s Independent Thinkers

Facing east were 13 colonies full of people in a raw, unmapped land, staring at the Atlantic Ocean. Inhabitants were taxed, but not allowed...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Shania Clifford is a high school junior and SkillsUSA masonry student who won the gold medal in Ohio’s Skills USA competition by 72 points. “She...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

He didn’t lie to get out of the draft. He got in the face of the draft, calling war immoral and going to jail...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Dressed to the nines in an idyllic setting next to a lake for a formal wedding and nothing can possibly go wrong, right? Before the...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

Alex Ruiz is a server at Cinco de Mayo Mexican Grill in Douglasville, Georgia. Recently a man walked in, ordered his food and sat down...