My blog tackles current events mainly focusing on challenges facing the youth, education, society, and family.
Last week I addressed the need for quality education and how it is the responsibility of the village to help raise the child especially in underserved communities. I have heard some say that the poor generally lack work ethic and suffer from bad role...
Read moreAbout a month ago Indianapolis re-elected Republican incumbent Mayor Greg Ballard who defeated Democrat Melina Kennedy. I must admit I support a lot of the ideas that Ballard has put forth. He certainly has been a good caretaker of the city keeping the...
Read moreWhenever I witness Black Friday shoppers storming into stores and behaving badly, I am reminded of the Nobel Prize novel Lord of the Flies. The plot in the book featured a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island trying to govern themselves. Eventually...
Read moreWhat took so long? Penn State ultimately decided it had no further option but to immediately part ways with disgraced Coach Joe Paterno and the President Graham Spanier of Penn State. This story is tragic on so many levels. For starters it is tragic for...
Read moreI have been keeping up with the Occupy Wall Street protest movement and I must say that while I do not condone the actions of everything taking place in these protests I can understand the dissonance. The anger is rooted in frustration from the struggling...
Read moreBullying has increasingly become an issue as of late in the news. It seems far too often that I am reading in the news about a young person who has tragically taken his or her own life due to being a victim of bullying. The solutions that I hear often...
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