I have a talking dog. We didn’t know it when we got him, of course. He didn’t reveal this talent to us right away. He would vocalize occasionally in dog-speak, but no one really had any idea what he was saying because he spoke in his language, and we spoke in ours, and there was no ...

Turbulent times can make people feel helpless and hopeless, but we have more agency than we might think. We can still choose to live life on our own terms — whatever that means for each of us individually. This is what the McCaffertys did. “So many people have fallen prey to this idea ...

Many wonder what the We CARE Foundation is and how the funds raised through the Turkey Bowl, Softball Marathon and other fundraising events are spent. The creation of the We CARE Foundation is a remarkable story about what the community did 10 years ago to preserve therapy service for ...

We regularly meet people who believe the worst of our hunger crisis is behind us. They reference the pandemic and the enormous number of people who needed help and suggest food insecurity must have lessened since then. We respond with an answer that surprises them: we are in a hunger ...

On Sept. 21, 2022, my 97-year-old father died. In addition to being a wonderful husband, father, friend, artist and distinguished professor of art education, he was my best friend and a WWII veteran. He was a quartermaster on the USS Wilke, a small destroyer escort. Its size was advantageous ...

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has put forth proposals to exempt tips and overtime from income taxation. These exemptions would almost exclusively benefit low- and middle-income households. Examining the economic consequences of these proposals is a worthwhile exercise. Incentives drive ...