We’ve had an active week with 4, count ’em, 4 articles submitted by regular readers. Please take some time to read them and comment on them all. These fellow readers have taken time to write out their thoughts to provoke discussion on important issues.
I’ll make it easy for you:
Gary Morgan: Healthcare – Individual Right or Imposition
Michael Bobbitt: Notes From the Peanut Gallery – City Council Water Bill Special Meeting
Elissa Yount: Mea Culpa Does Not Cut It
Profile America for the 21st day of Black History Month. Phillis Wheatley was brought to Colonial America as a young slave from Senegal and was purchased by a Boston tailor. Unusual for the time, he allowed her to learn to read and write, and she wrote her first poetry at age 14. The first volume of her work, called “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” was published in England when she was 20 and was well received in Europe and the U.S. General George Washington invited Wheatley to visit his headquarters after he read a poem she had written about him in 1776. Each year in the U.S., books by African-American authors are among the more than $27 billion of new books sold across the country. This special edition of Profile America is a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
I’m keeping the other filler news out today so you can focus on the user submissions for this week.
Of course, you are free to come up with your own topics here, Discuss and more on the Open Lines!