This week, I had the opportunity to write about cheerleading. I had friends who shared information about their children attending the NCA competition in Dallas last weekend, and when I learned of Piner's big win, I was so excited.
South Korea’s beleaguered President Yoon Suk-yeol has now formally been charged with insurrection and will stand trial. Yoon remains in office though formal duties have been suspended.
It isn't an uncommon thing where people will tell me that they regularly read and enjoy my Good Morning Columns when I write them. While I write a lot about life in general, geek and nerd culture and other things like that, the topic I write about that gets the most comments is my love-hate relationship with professional wrestling.
A teacher who is hired to take over a classroom the first day of the second semester will likely face challenges and criticism from some students and parents, especially if the first semester teacher ran a loose ship and lacked classroom management skills, sound teaching pedagogy, or a challenging syllabus. Clearly, it is much more difficult to establish an orderly classroom environment that promotes learning if the previous teacher failed to enforce even minimal, industry-acceptable standards.
As we edge ever closer to the end of the first month of the new year, some of that new year holiday feeling might be beginning to wane. Some may be struggling with seasonal depression that can hit when the long nights of winter collide with bitter cold and gloomy days.
More than 14,000 children in Grayson County could benefit from approximately $1.7 million with the Summer EBT program. For millions of Texas children, the end of the school year means the end of consistent and reliable school meals.
“What about the rest of the North?” asked McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation, back in the 1970s while considering yet one more grant to help the troubled Native American tribes of Alaska.
We are more than a week and a half into the new year and it sure does not feel like it.
In the last good morning column, I wrote about my denial of the 2025 winter storm. Now that we are four inches into the snowfall, I cannot deny it anymore.
In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake, at least from the national political establishment based in Washington D.C. and the mainstream mass media.