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Mental Health Moment: You CAN make a difference

In our society currently, it can feel like one is simply screaming out into the abyss with most things they try ⏤ without seemingly any

I think the biggest lies that I used to tell myself often were “I have no choice” or “this is just how things are”. However,

I’ll be completely honest with you guys, most days the thought that repeats in my head is, “I don’t want to do this.” However, every

Lately, when I consider the Observer, why I founded it and my experiences professionally and in life, I think I started on the wrong foot,

KENOSHA ⏤ It has been a long time since I’ve let you inside my mind, my friends. For that, I do sincerely apologize. However, I’d

KENOSHA ⏤ As of Jan. 1, 2022, I am officially five years sober from alcohol, after roughly also a decade of alcoholism/binge drinking. However, while

KENOSHA ⏤ We need to, as a society, go back to sticking to the Golden Rule in an unflinching and aggressively positive way when it

KENOSHA ⏤ I remember my first day covering any government meeting in any community. In October 2012, I walked into the Kimball County Courthouse in