This category is used to mark member submissions pertaining to some local, state, or national note-worthy events. These can include reprints of letters to the editor or op-eds in various press outlets.

Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Freedom

It's somewhat ironic that the motto adopted for our sesquicentennial (250) anniversary as a country is "250 years of freedom." The irony is that it's only been landed white men who have had full freedom for that long. Ray Smock describes the broad history of the groups of citizens who have had to struggle to rightfully claim their freedoms and how even now some of those hard won freedoms are under threat. The freedom to tell the whole truthful story of our 250 years is what we need to celebrate.

When McCarthy Met His Match

It took a see-no-evil Republican Congress to get us into the fix we are today. Russell Geiman contrasts our present situation with the famously brave act that ended the tyranny of the McCarthy era more than a half-century ago. Where is that one brave person today that can topple a demagogic president? Missing, so far.

Jefferson County Development Authority Meets With Data Center Experts

Jenny Thacker attended the JC Development Authority meeting regarding data centers in Jefferson County. She reports that the invitees were one-sided in their praise for these centers and largely dismissive of the issues that communities affected by them raise. Jenny posed these questions in a recap of the meetings in a Letter to the Editor in the Spirit of Jefferson.