Perspectives

The Fourteenth Amendment (Section 1): "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.

"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any persons within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The importance of being our brother’s keeper

by Mikel Kwaku Osei Holt
The most unnerving sound you’ll ever hear is that of a jail cell door closing and locking behind you. Even though I was but a visitor to ... Read more

The Community Journal Endorses...
Incumbents dominate our April 1 choices

Compiled by Community Journal Staff

To hold state and local elections on April 1--"April Fools Day"--is, we admit, a little disconcerting. There is this fear that we all might wake up the day after the election and find that it was all a joke played on us, the voter. But these 2008 elections are no joke. The stakes are too high for the future of our city, county and state given the ... Read more