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  • October 3-9 is National Newspaper Week.
    October 3-9 is National Newspaper Week.

    I am not sure what I expected our country to look like in 2021, but I certainly did not expect it to be so fractured and so bogged down in hate. My oldest son was a year old on September 11, 2001. The wave of patriotism following that day gave me hope for the America that my kids would inherit.

    Fast-forward 20 years, and that hope has been overtaken by fear. Fear that our country has become so pola…