Today is the first day of Summer 2022 and it is warm if not dangerously hot across most of the U.S. As an example, the Heat Index for Chicago is 102 degrees Fahrenheit. I don’t know who I should talk to about this, but here in the southeast, it feels like we’ve been in the … Continue reading
On this first anniversary of the Juneteenth holiday, let’s remember why this day is significant in American history. First, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. Issued under powers granted to the president “as a fit and necessary war measure”, the proclamation declared, “That on the 1st day of January, A.D. … Continue reading