by Ty Davison | Jun 5, 2023 | News & Commentary
Newspaper letters to the editor, like many social media sites, are frequently a disheartening exercise in discovering a none-too-bright local populace. Newspaper readers tend to show a bit more intellect with missives occasionally even reaching erudite, something that...
by Ty Davison | Jun 17, 2022 | News & Commentary
Culture wars lead to teacher firings, resignations – The Washington Post: A Florida teacher lost her job for hanging a Black Lives Matter flag over her classroom door and rewarding student activism. A Massachusetts teacher was fired for posting a video...
by Ty Davison | Jun 7, 2022 | News & Commentary
Washington Post’s Dave Weigel suspended for retweeting sexist remark. The joke specifically: Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual. Thought it was moderately funny myself. That a reporter would be suspended for...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Hard to believe this made it into law… The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more than $60,000, according to a draft settlement filed in...
by Ty Davison | Oct 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Muslims protest against French rhetoric following knife attack – The Washington Post: The demonstrations were the latest sign of rising anger across the Muslim world, directed at Macron’s government’s rhetoric defending cartoons published by Charlie...