Author: Nancy Werking Poling
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Henrik Ibsen, fracking, and jobs
In Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” we see the folly of a community making a decision based on economic considerations. Today in making moral decisions, such as those related to fracking, we must look at more than the jobs created.
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The role of government in environmental issues
By the late 1930s the logging industry had destroyed the forests of the Southeast. Land that is today Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests is lush with fir-spruce trees because the government bought and reforested the land. We need government regulations.
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Civility in politics: Let’s keep Archie Bunker out.
Before Archie Bunker came along we Americans kept most of our bigoted thoughts to ourselves. Today telling it like it is has become a virtue, infecting our politics with an incivility unknown in recent memory.
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My advice to graduates
No one’s asked me to speak at graduation, but I’ve prepared a message for seniors anyway. The theme? The values you’ve been taught—get real. Nobody practices that stuff anyway.
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The Death of Beauty and the Future of Our Planet
If we do not expose our children to the beauty of nature, they will surely not value our planet and work to preserve it.
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An older woman looks at sex and a changing world
Sex. The subject excites us; it scares us. Sex is everywhere. Turn on the TV, and you see people casually sleeping with a colleague, a neighbor, a stranger even. Ads for Viagra promise meaningful relationships, not necessarily with a spouse. Crime shows deal with rape and sexual abuse. Sex sells cars, shampoo—you name it. Homosexuality…
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month.
After hearing the stories of victims, I have become an advocate for preventing domestic violence and sexual abuse.
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God and the right to marry
“The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men,” the court opinion stated in 1967.
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