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’ve noticed a concerning trend in youth club sports this spring season. Parents are signing their children up to participate, and then the kids aren’t showing up.
They’re not showing up to practices, and they’re not showing up to games.
Both soccer and volleyball
have struggled to put together...
In 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the U.S. Supreme Court, in one of the most controversial decisions of the Warren Court era, held school-led prayer
unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
Engel was the first school prayer case heard by the Court, but it was not...
This year’s News Letter Journal graduation edition, the May 19 edition, will feature a special partnership with the Newc High News staff, giving you a look at everything senior at Newcastle High School — straight from the student body.
It works out as sort of a final project of the year for them,...
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e wasn’t even supposed to get to compete.
He started with 99-1 odds and by the time betting closed, he had made it to 80-1. He was on the far outside starting gate, because he only got the nod to race on Friday morning after another horse scratched, and then by Saturday afternoon, he was the...
What inspires us? What is it that gets us to put forth our very best effort and be the best selves we can possibly be?
Being involved in sports through the past several decades, I’ve watched teams that win, I’ve watched teams that almost win, I’ve watched teams that are on the brink of winning and...
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he U.S. Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause was in Everson v. Board of Education, in 1947, when it upheld a state law that provided busing of students to parochial schools. The Court’s entry into this constitutional maze foreshadowed the...
Fentanyl Russian Roulette
To the Editor:
It is difficult for the average person to understand why a normal person would persist in playing Russian Roulette with a loaded gun every day, but that is what some people are doing who take various pills every day to try to escape reality.
Fentanyl is a...
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o doubt about it — we are getting more wind today than ever before in history. I hear people saying that all over Wyoming, in Utah, in Nevada, and even in Dallas, Texas, during this long windy spring.
No matter where we have been over the past few months, local winds have almost blown us away. ...
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ccording to a recent study from a company called Smart Asset, Weston County ranks ninth out of Wyoming’s 23 counties on a list of the best counties in the state for small business owners.
To arrive at that conclusion, the study looked at tax returns from each county to determine the proportion of...
America’s free speech story, as written in Supreme Court decisions, did not begin until World War I when the Court declared in 1919, in Schenck v. United States, that speech is protected unless it presents a “clear and present danger” to our nation.
The Court’s landmark opinion, written by Justice...
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