Mindy Todd is the host and producer of The Point on WCAI which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. She brings more than 30 years of experience in radio and television to WCAI. After starting her broadcasting career as a midday DJ at WARE in Ware, Massachusetts, she quickly advanced to host of the morning drive show, which in 1981, made her one of the few women in broadcasting to anchor her own morning show. Her career has covered nearly all aspects of broadcasting. She has been a radio disc jockey, a traffic reporter, a television news anchor and reporter, a program director, talk show host, and even a ski reporter. Her television work brought her to White River Junction, VT, Portland, ME, Indianapolis, IN and Nashville, TN. Mindy also worked at radio stations in West Palm Beach, FL, Hartford, CT, Boston, MA and Lebanon, NH. She has received numerous awards, most recently her 5th National PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated) award fo
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For over a century International Women’s Day has been celebrated around the world on March 8 as a day to recognize the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
From The San Diego Union, Tuesday, March, 9, 1971:
International Women’s Day Marked
International Women’s Day is 61 years old yesterday and feminists here made notations in the margins of history to commemorate the event at the downtown YWCA.
“How many of us with college degrees would recognize the names Mercy Otis Warren, Anna Ella Carrol, Harriet Tubman and Mother Jones?” Sherry Smith asked the women who sat cross-legged on overstuffed pillows.
The Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year Committee is seeking nominations for the Cape Cod woman who has made significant contributions in the arts, business, education, community involvement and/or
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By Saheed Lawal
“A house divided upon itself – and upon that foundation do our enemies build their hopes of subduing us.”
That line appeared in a letter from Abigail Adams, the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, to Mercy Otis Warren, a poet, playwright and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. It was during the War of 1812. That war was fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its allies.
But that war is not the purpose of this article; it is that immortal line and what it has got to do with the Nigerian security situation and what ought to be the ideal response of the Nigerian people, particularly the power brokers, and the military – emphasis on the soldiers that epitomise our struggle as Nigerians to live out our days as peacefully as we can.