Archive for March, 2026
March: Women’s History Month
Celebrating the long path to equality Compiled by GOOGLE AND AI 1848 - Seneca Falls Convention: Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, this was the first women’s rights convention, initiating the organized movement. 1848 - Property Rights: Mississippi passes the Married Women’s Property Act, granting women, for the first time, some control over their property. 1911 - First International Women’s Day: Celebrated on March 19, recognizing women’s rights in several European countries. 1913 - Woman Suffrage Parade: Over 5,000 women march in Washington, D.C. for the right to vote. 1920 - 19th Amendment Ratified: Women gain the constitutional right to vote in the United States. 1923 - Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Drafted: Alice Paul drafts the ERA, aimed at guaranteeing legal gender equality. 1963 - The Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan publishes the book, sparking the second-wave feminist movement. 1963 - Equal Pay Act: Congress passes [...]
Wide Variations of Infant and Child Mortality Rates Over Time and Cures
Abbie Palmer and Jasper Woodward Martha Woodward’s father, Jasper Woodward, and her sister, Nellie. Unfortunately, we do not have a photograph of Martha. Jasper Woodward, a Civil Veteran, is buried in Lakewood Cemetery of Minneapolis; it is 250 acres and opened in 1871. PHOTO: Courtesy the family. from the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery... By SUE HUNTER WEIR Abbie Palmer and Jasper Woodward lost their two-year-old daughter Martha on May 28, 1878. She died from measles. Her parents were not the only ones to mourn a child lost to that disease: there are 121 others buried in the Cemetery. Six of them were over ten years old; the other 115 were younger, and the vast majority of those were younger than two years old. Mortality Rates Change While Grief is ConstantThe infant and child mortality rates in the United States in the 19th century were at, or close to, 40% which, in the 20th century, led some people to believe that bereaved parents did [...]
Right Thing the Wrong Way
from the series Something I Said... By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes ICE is doing the right thing the wrong way. The 2024 wholesale deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members videotaped terrorizing apartment residents of Aurora, Colorado was a desperately needed rescue action. It began a practice, though, by which, instead of targeting violent parasites who prey on those leading productive lives, federal law enforcement is, itself, wantonly destructive. For going on two years, South Minneapolis has seen Mexican immigrants and Mexican American citizens live in fear to the point of hysteria, making what used to be a humorous quip frighteningly real: because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Accordingly, it’s quite sensible that in January the Minneapolis City Council asked Gov. Tim Walz to institute an eviction moratorium. You go to work, get arrested and deported, you’re unable to pay rent. You don’t get deported but are detained too long, [...]
