Sense of Decency

Listening to others, seeing things through their eyes.

By DENNIS HARROD Ken Lindblom is hoping no one throws a brick through his window. He has no reason to think anybody will, but when you’re a small-town newspaper editor, people sometimes take exception to strong opinions. And when you run stories with headlines such as “The Trump Dictatorship Has Begun,” tempers might flare.  Since …

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By DENNIS HARROD “For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home.” From the Gospel of Matthew Across the globe, more than 43 million people are refugees, people forced to flee their own country. Their future …

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By JIM McKEEVER Our hurry-up society provides plenty of tests of civility and decency — mundane, everyday experiences and encounters that reveal a great deal about who we are as individuals and as a community. Coffee shop lines. Grocery store shopping carts. Red lights and stop signs. How are we doing? That’s hard to quantify. …

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