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Our Voice: The Oath that Binds Us All

by Jan Wondra | Nov 19, 2022 | 0

This past week Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, dressed in her iconic white suit (a nod to the...

Our Voice: The Real Choices in This Election

by Jan Wondra | Nov 5, 2022 | 3

This election is about choices, but perhaps not the choices of which readers are aware.

Our Voice: Violence Has No Place in Democracy

by Daniel Smith | Nov 1, 2022 | 0

“There’s some scary stuff happening.” A quote from Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday, in...

Our Voice: Journalists and Democracy

by Jan Wondra | Oct 15, 2022 | 0

We in the news media sometimes consider our jobs to be ‘damned if we do, damned if we don’t.”

Our Voice: In Praise of Civics Education and what it means for Democracy and Political Conversation

by Jan Wondra | Sep 5, 2022 | 0

Labor Day is the traditional start of the election season in an election year. Every two years, ...

Our Voice: Roadtrips across America, Fields of Corn and Threats to Democracy

by Jan Wondra | Aug 27, 2022 | 1

It could be said that I have seen more of our country this summer than I have for years, and some of what I have seen has been disturbing, revealed in signage among the rolling fields of corn stalks and …

Our Voice: Recognizing The Foot Soldiers of Fascism

by Ark Valley Voice Staff | Jul 11, 2022 | 1

“The reality is, if we don’t talk about it, [violent extremists] are going to continue to organize, and they’re going to continue to train. There are definitely lots of groups on the far right who want war. They are preparing for war. And not talking about it does not make us safer. What we’re heading toward is an insurgency, which is a form of a civil war. That is the 21st-century version of a civil war.”
Barbara Walters
Extremism expert