Columns

100 years ago – January 6, 1921

Newsroom Notebook is a new monthly column written by one of our staff members.

Another year, with 12 months and 8,760 hours, has come and gone. Was it too fast, too slow or something in between?

Quilt thanks

There are two looming events on our calendars that may further confirm the difference between compulsory law and bendable customs.

Note: This column originally appeared eleven years ago. Our friends’ now-nineteen-year-old daughter—who checks straws as a matter-of-fact routine—did not know why or how the habit began. This is for you, Kate.

Recently, without intending to, I’m sure, the Attorney General of the United States generated a teaching moment on the improper use of Holy Scripture. He spoke in favor of our government’s policy toward immigrants and asylum-seekers, which included taking young children from their parents and not saying where they were being held.