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. America is unique in so many ways, but the most distinctive part of the American experience for me is that we are bound together by a set of promises made to us by our founders - a promise that we will be free from tyranny and allowed to pursue our own version of happiness.

Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to many Americans. Every year on June 19th, we celebrate Juneteenth, a day that marks the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union Soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX to announce that enslaved African Americans were fina

I think we can all agree that no one likes to pay taxes, and I’m certain there are many readers who are choosing between filling up their car and buying groceries this week, and no matter how many times someone tells you how critical municipal taxes are to our day-to-day needs, if you don’t have the money you don’t have the money. I am also certain there are many who are deeply disappointed with the Board of Finance’s cut to the Board of Education budget, thinking it punitive

Without doing much at all, I find myself being talked about in the third person, which I find strange because I am fully capable of talking for myself, as anyone who knows me can attest. All this seems to have very little to do with me (though I imagine these folks do not like me) or the budget (which they’re ostensibly about). Instead, these are bad faith attempts to try win a debate online, thinking this to be an effective strategy at convincing voters who absolutely know