Anyone telling women what they can or cannot do with their bodies should take a biology course. A woman cannot get pregnant without the help of male sperm. Instead of punishing only women for unwanted pregnancies, men should play a prominent part. I suggest any man who impregnates a woman should be responsible for the […]

Congress has begun important discussions of the second infrastructure bill, including significant funding to address the impacts of changing climate. It is hard not to notice that droughts, hurricanes and flooding are now impacting wide areas of our country. Spending for the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration and wildfires is off the charts. People who […]

There is much consternation in the pro-choice community — in much of the mainstream media and reaching all the way to the White House — concerning the recent Texas law which bans an abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which usually occurs about six weeks into the pregnancy. Isn’t a beating heartbeat a […]

Let me start by saying that most of the people in New Auburn are decent, loving, friendly and forgiving. That being said, I believe that the majority of us are not happy with the treatment of Leroy Walker. He made a mistake, he apologized and he should be forgiven. It concerns me that some of […]

Raised as a child of missionaries, I grew up as an American in a foreign land. My parents taught me that Christian values were the fundamental underpinning of American culture, while instructing that we should always be respectful of other cultures. My understanding is that an essential element of the values that were brought forth […]

Together we stand; divided we fall. Looks like we are very divided. Rome fell when people saw that they could get free stuff from the government, and now it is happening, big time, in the U.S.A. I remember, as a kid, my parents refusing to go on welfare. They were proud of working their way […]