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By James McGuire

Juneteenth is on the horizon, and I think of my childhood and Osam Williams’ family celebrating the occasion by banging on pots and pans and singing. I never asked his sons, Norman Day and Sonny — who were friends of my brother and me — why they did that. This holiday was not in my high school history books, and I have a vague sense of learning about the chant “Send them back to Africa” and Liberia (In the early nineteenth century, members of the American Colonization Society felt that Blacks in America were more likely to proper if they took up residence in this West African location).

Unfair foreign competition is a massive problem for Ohio companies, particularly from countries like China, where the government much of the economy.

Dear Readers,

I awoke and glanced around the room. The soft purple nightlight glowed over the sleeping children. We were in Maryland staying at the home of the Imran Razvi family, where we had come to spend a couple days to learn more about caring for little hearts who have gone through adoption.

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By David Lindeman

At moments in our lives, we pause to reflect and ask ourselves those “What if?” questions: What if I had seized that opportunity? What if I had taken another career path?

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According to NPR, On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Senate voted to “formally repeal the war authorization that justified the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War,” a war which ran from 2003 until 2011. On Oct. 14, 2006, Keith J. Moore, U.S. Army, died in a checkpoint south of Baghdad where he was serving as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was 28 years old and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.