News
What’s the difference between 40 years of marriage and looking for the promised land?
It’s our wedding anniversary, and I’ve learned a lot can happen in 40 years. READ MORE
Virtual Robidoux
Opinion
Maternal Magnetism
Like a compass needle, her magnetism pointed me exactly in the direction I needed to go, whether we ever really knew it or not. Just as the invisible moon pulls at the ocean, even through a sky of clouds, my mother continues to move me. READ MORE
Around Town
Of bad Karma and really solving homelessness in our city
Seeing the homeless camping outside my downtown office inspired me to look for a bright idea. I think I found it. READ MORE
News
Superheroines among us: Of kindness and kittens
“But I also believe the way people treat animals is a reflection on how they treat human beings. It makes it hard to be compassionate for one another if we can’t feel compassion for animals that are helpless.” READ MORE
City Hall
I am rejecting ‘politics as usual’ in my city. Who’s with me?
I hope I’m not the only one wondering how much longer we will condone inappropriate behavior with our collective silence. READ MORE
News
Let’s make McAllaster great again (and use it as a community theater!)
Imagine if students from all four of our high schools could come together for a district-wide theater arts collaborative, making McAllaster home base, and staging one major production each school year pooling talent from all four schools, including technical support from MST students? READ MORE
Around Town
Lights Rider: NH’s Neon Cowboy on Wheels
I saw Kendall Cote, aka Lights Rider, loading his bike onto the back of his car, and I pulled up next to him, and asked him if he’d indulge me for a few minutes. READ MORE
Safe Station Update
Safe Station 2.0: ‘What we started with and what we have now is like night and day.’
When Safe Station started, it was an experimental idea. EMS Officer Chris Hickey offered it up as a way to reduce the number of overdose deaths and AMR calls; invite people ready for change to walk in a door, hopefully, in a moment of clarity, instead of the city responding to a drug overdose, too often, too late to save a life. READ MORE
Opinion
The joy of phubbing: Cell phones and relationships in the 21st Century
But phubbing – that is phone snubbing, or the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention – has become so commonplace, I have a hard time taking seriously a recent study that suggests it is a practice that is ruining relationships and leading to widespread depression.
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Opinion
Honoring real life action hero in aftermath of another mass shooting
Today, I am choosing to dwell on the forces of good, not evil, in this world. From a grateful mother to the Umpqua Community College student and Army veteran who took five bullets as he tackled the shooter and is a real life super hero: Thank you. READ MORE
