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Education: Still Feeling The Effects Of COVID-19
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It’s been about five years since the Covid-19 pandemic turned the entire world upside down and turned every home with children into a virtual classroom.
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The Things that Room In The Inn has Done for Me and Others
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Thank God Room In The Inn is so understanding.
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How The Contributor Added Years to My Life and Life to my Years
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The Contributor newspaper means more to me than just having my own business — that in and of itself is huge.
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Remember ‘When’
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In the 50s and 60s, people came to Nashville to make it big in the music world. They either made it big or went back home. People lived in boarding rooms for about $10 a week. Eating was cheap: for about $12 or $13, you could eat a steak dinner. Everything was centrally located, so you could walk everywhere you needed to go.
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The Contributor More Than Just A Street Newspaper
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The Contributor is an award winning street newspaper, but that’s only part of the story. As a vendor and writer for this publication, when I look through its pages every two weeks I see so much more. There is a vast array of stories that can be used to teach people of ALL ages something new, much like the Weekly Reader did for me as a young child and as a teenager, really throughout my scholastic life. Every Friday like clockwork our classroom would receive the latest edition. I would immediately open it up.
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Morning Coffee and a Thought
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My name is Daniel Holmes, and I grew up in a small town in Maryland. Now I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I was never a person who picked a political party. I generally went with who sounded the best. Recently, we were reminded that everybody has a voice by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of Washington, D.C. She reminded President Trump that what he does in office affects everyone equally.
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Loosing Loved Ones Hurts Your Heart
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My friend passed away yesterday. He was 48 years old. He saved my life back in 1985. I was in jail and he kept some people from hurting me because they were gonna kill me. They had a knife and everything.
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The Strength of a Smile
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When one greets another, a smile soothes apprehension but also shows power — the power to deal with just about any and all circumstances that life has thrown at that person. Passers-by may wonder: “Why and how is he still smiling?” From birth, he was and is the only male of that household. At the age of six, he experienced a lifechanging tragedy. He’d been hit by a drunk driver, which sent him as high as a telephone pole only to come back down and bust his head open on the windshield of the driver’s car.
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Global Warming is Changing Traditional Weather Lore
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As a second grader in 1970, I recall my teacher incorporating weather lore into our lessons. Some of the lore went back centuries. “When you see the first robin redbreast, it’s a sure sign of spring.” Not anymore! The winters are now warm enough for robins to find food year-round; they don’t migrate anymore. So, if you see a robin on January 4th, don’t be thinking it’s springtime.
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School Choice Is Beneficial For Some But Detrimental To Others
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It seems that school choice has become a hot topic nationwide, with 32 states and Washington, D.C., implementing it in various ways. Arizona has actively supported school choice from the beginning. Arizona resident Rebecca Eklund, an educator, parent and advocate for parents of children with special needs who has placed her children through public school, charter school, private school, home school and even the voucher program, said she, “returned to teaching in a traditional public school because [their] local districts still have the most comprehensive resources and the most experienced and educated teachers.” Other states have hit the brakes on funding such programs. Illinois stopped funding their voucher program in 2023, after only six years. It’s important to note that school choice can take many different forms: vouchers, education savings accounts and tax credit scholarships, to name a few.