Opinion from Ruth Wagner Having read the recent spate of incendiary anti-abortion letters in local newspapers, I am compelled to respond. Pro-choice means that a woman has control of her own life and her own body. Having been raised a strict Catholic, I left the organized church over contraception, not abortion. The issues that we [...]

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by Thomas Thornburg When the Kankana-ey prepared The squatting corpse of Apo Annu It was because they, deeply caring, Mourned the warrior-priest’s departing; Thus at his passage into night There were to be no photos taken, No sneezing, broken glass, or fighting, And, lest his spirit be forsaken, No farting. For months before the hero [...]

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