Since 1970, April 22nd has been Earth Day a day to focus on improving the environment for us and the generations that will come afterward. This year, while there is still much need to address topics like climate change and pollution, we have other toxic environmental issues with which to contend. There's a
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On Sunday, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man was shot and killed by a local police officer during a traffic stop outside Minneapolis.
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The officer and police chief both called this an error: The officer meant to reach for her taser, but pulled out the gun and fired a single bullet instead. They called this an accidental discharge.
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After the fact, it s easy to say, we shouldn t have done something that it was a mistake. The problem is some mistakes are minor, and some are life-changing, or in this case, life-extinguishing.
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The officer involved resigned from the force and has been charged with manslaughter. The fact that she made a mistake doesn t change the outcome. Why was she even reaching for a taser anyway? Was that necessary?
This week, we mark the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Exactly a year ago, we were overcoming the shock of learning a deadly disease was about to ravage not just a few countries, but the entire globe. The world as we knew it began to change dramatically.
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Since then, over 520,000 Americans alone have died from COVID-19 and nearly 29 million people became infected. We were introduced to the concept of social distancing, learned the meaning of WFH, the pros and cons of remote learning for teaching kids, and how to spell Zoom. As many as 18 million people were put out of work at one point, and 8 million people slipped into poverty at a result of the pandemic. And no one could find any toilet paper!
This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they would no longer be publishing six books by the popular children's author because they contain images that are racially insensitive. The titles, including And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, If I Ran The Zoo, and four others, were published in the early 1950s.
This week, Silicon Valley-based Fry's Electronics announced it was closing all its remaining stores and shutting down operations immediately. This wasn't a total surprise, because Fry's had been shuttering stores for the last couple of years. Inventory was limited in those stores that remained open. What was special about Fry's? Long before