Community leaders worry about program’s safeguards against surveillance A PILOT PROGRAM to help curb recruitment of local Somali youth by overseas extremist groups has sparked… Read More
CVE pilot sparks debate among local Somalis, Muslims
September 2015 Magazine Articles
When comedy becomes a sport
Local students learn competitive improv in ComedySportz High School League INSTEAD OF A FOOTBALL, baseball or frisbee, students in the ComedySportz High School League have… Read More
A new beginning to the school day
AS ST. PAUL JOHNSON moves its start time an hour later this fall, riding the classic yellow school bus may become a thing of the… Read More
The journey with my mother
MY FATHER LEFT on Christmas 2011. I kind of saw it as a present, rather than a tragedy. I wouldn’t miss the colored pencil drawings… Read More
Climbing higher, growing stronger
AT AN ELEVATION OF 7,290 feet, we – 40-some American high school students – started hiking up the mountain single file, placing one foot in… Read More
A lesson in being truly grateful
AS I STARED at the black streaks of slimy, putty-like goo that were thrown onto my bedroom ceiling during my 10th birthday celebration, I resented… Read More
Working hard on my path forward
WALKING INTO A ROOM full of strangers is scary. Especially when you’re the newest and youngest person there. I knew this feeling all too well…. Read More
Strength can mean more than muscles
IT’S RECESS; every kid’s favorite time during school. The sun beats down on all of us as we scrape our knees and ruin our clothes…. Read More
Wrestling with womanhood
MY FRIEND AND I were walking the streets of southern France with an almost unbearable heat seeping in from all directions. We were making our… Read More
Lessons from a broken Venezuelan toilet seat
THE ONLY THING MORE embarrassing than breaking a toilet seat, is breaking a toilet seat in a country where it costs several times more than… Read More
