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Community Voices

Education and training: two very different learning processes

I came across a quote in the past week, one that links the training of children to the realization of ambition and future potential. For the most part I think it’s a great thought. I would just make a change with the first few words. I would take out training and insert the word ...

The consequences of lack of empathy

This might be the best time of the year. Believe me when I say I’d like to write about spring or planting or baseball. Then I saw a picture. There was Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, standing in front of a prison in El Salvador. Behind her, behind bars, were a few dozen men, ...

Dealing with cutting, self-harm

Patients that psychologists frequently encounter are people who are cutting themselves. Cutting is a form of self-mutilation. Cutting is not the only form of self-mutilation that people do to themselves. They may also burn themselves, pick pieces of skin out of their body, pull their hair ...

With sunnier days ahead, be aware of skin cancer risk

The warm sunshine of spring is a welcome change from the cold and brutal winds of winter in the Upper Midwest. However, with more time outside comes greater exposure to sunlight – a top risk factor for skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common cancer among Americans with 5.4 million cases ...

Undermining value of civil servants

I am writing to share some of my experiences working with members of our nation’s Federal Civil Service during over twenty years of active duty in the U.S. Army. Every assignment at every installation where I served involved working with members of the Federal Civil Service. If we have been ...

A brief fling with spring fever

No nice weather ever goes unpunished in our neck of the woods. We had a fabulously clement March, with nearly no snow and temperatures that were generally agreed to be “not too bad.” We didn’t receive any snow during our state high school basketball tournaments. These events are ...