Autism is among the most misunderstood of all the human conditions.
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By Albert Cajigas, Arizona’s Children Association
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5/17/22
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It’s been more than 40 years since our mother made history.
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By Jay O’Connor and Scott O’Connor Guest columnists
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5/13/22
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Dictionaries often define patience this way – the ability to endure difficult circumstances with a positive attitude...
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By Mark Mayers
Real Life Children’s Ranch | 5/13/22 |
If there is one thing we don’t need here in the U.S. it’s another disease. Just when I thought we were maybe putting...
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By Greg Stangl
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5/12/22
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Your classes are finished, your finals are done, and you finally have your diploma in hand — congratulations graduate! Now what?
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By Rachel Caballero, TruWest Credit Union
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5/10/22
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I've always believed trigger warning were silly and unnecessary.
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By Louise Graf
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5/9/22
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Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a healthy, functioning democracy.
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By Chris Walsh, Lindsay Lloyd and William McKenzie, George W. Bush Institute’s
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5/6/22
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If you attended a Passover Seder recently, you likely covered the 10 plagues. If not that, perhaps, in the spirit of the season, you watched “The Ten Commandments,” one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. Ten plagues feature prominently in both, and it has occurred to me that we are experiencing our own 11th plague, and it is fierce.
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By Jill Ebstein, Inside for Sources.com
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5/2/22
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Black and Brown, Latinx/Latine and Indigenous Peoples, new Americans, and migrant workers have been stewards of these lands for centuries. But, the modern environmental movement as we know it found its footing in the United States with the first Earth Day in 1970 and the founding of Greenpeace in 1971.
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By Anusha Narayanan, Greenpeace USA
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4/22/22
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After more than five decades, it is time to let go of Earth Day. Conceived by peace activists and initially promoted by international labor unions, it has been the focus of mass mobilization and awareness campaigns.
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By Kent Lassman, Competitive Enterprise Institute
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4/22/22
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Loud detonations are going off in the economy. When the debris settles, new realities will emerge. We won’t return to the status quo ante, although that is what politicians like to promise.
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By Llewellyn King, InsideSources.com
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4/19/22
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Debt collection calls are something none of us ever want to experience, and quite frankly, in our world inundated with phishing, scams and frauds, it’s important to make sure the debt collection is also in fact legitimate.
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By Ben Branson, Cavanagh Law Firm
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4/18/22
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“Lo I am with you always until the end of time.” “God so loved the world...” (Not just some, but black, brown, red, yellow - even this old white fella).
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By Andrew R McKillop
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4/17/22
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George MacDonald tells a story from his first pastorate, sometime near the year 1850...
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By Loy Mershimer
Okeechobee Presbyterian Church | 4/17/22 |
It’s 2022, and the opioid epidemic rages on in America. At this point, it’s a full-blown national drug crisis.
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By Ramey Darwish
Special to Lake Okeechobee News | 4/15/22 |
The Easter Bunny is a much-celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might have left behind.
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By Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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4/14/22
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For the last two decades, America’s political and economic elite have talked eagerly of “globalization.” But now the tide has turned. Suddenly, everybody is talking about “deglobalization.”
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By Jeff Ferry, Coalition for a Prosperous America
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4/13/22
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Easter morning was a special event, growing up. We would waken in the middle of the night to our mother’s call.
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By Loy Mershimer
Okeechobee Presbyterian Church | 4/13/22 |
When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information about your mobile device use, photos, audio and video.
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By Ravi Sen, Texas A&M
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4/12/22
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As April 15th rolls around for another year, many are focused on income tax refunds or the rush to file and preparing for a family …
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Special to the Lake Okeechobee News
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4/11/22
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