I started my adult life as an athlete. After college, I played professional basketball in Europe for 12 years. I was used to the physical grind — 6 a.m. runs, hours of practice every day, etc. At the time I was building my strength physically, but I still felt run-down at times because I wasn’t
Photo: Yoon Suk-yeol (Wikipedia) Comparisons between South Korea and the Philippines can be tempting. I can’t help but succumb to the temptation after covering this month’s election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos as president of the Philippines and then observing, via the internet, the inauguration in Seoul the next day of Yoon Suk-yeol as president of
[Disclaimer: The views expressed in opinion pieces on the PrescotteNews website are solely those of the authors. These opinions do not necessarily represent those of the staff of Prescott eNews or its publisher.] Black candidates continue to lose. Earlier this month, two black women hoping to win the Democrat nomination for Senate in Ohio lost to
[Disclaimer: The views expressed in opinion pieces on the PrescotteNews website are solely those of the authors. These opinions do not necessarily represent those of the staff of Prescott eNews or its publisher.] On May 14, 18-year-old Payton Gendron shot 13 people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10. All but two of his
One after another, they used some form of the term “settled law.” Roe v. Wade had been “settled” nearly 50 years ago. Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett enunciated. Even Samuel Alito chimed in earlier. During her Senate confirmation hearings, conservative Barrett openly said one’s own views aren’t part of the equation in the
Technology is tampering with freedom of speech, and we don’t know what to do about it. At issue are the global platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the disturbing propaganda, disinformation and lies propagated on them. The inclination, on the left and the right, is to censor. It is a terrible solution, more toxic and
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