The national election, when the entire country was focused on one thing and everyone was involved in discussions on the same topic, reminded me that, in many ways, the United States is a giant ...

Most communities have characteristics that define them — attributes that are as obvious as a nose on a face. Often, those defining characteristics are determined by geography or climate or the largest ...

I’ve used this quote before, but it bears repeating. Albert Einstein said, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Building ...

Most people understand the word “community,” but it’s so difficult to define that in 2001, the CDC co-founded a study to define what the word means. The results, published in the American Journal of ...

A yearlong effort at defining community will begin Thursday in Urbana, with a talk examining whether specialized governments lessen the sense of community by isolating citizens. "We're not going to ...

Midway through his lecture in Salomon 001 Monday afternoon, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., made a confession. "I am one of the few Democrats you will never hear giving much celebration to Franklin ...

Guadalupe Castillon-Mendoza is still recovering emotionally from the day in June when a projectile was shot through a window at their workplace at Trans Fronteras, a Hillcrest-based nonprofit that ...

Almost two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 variants have made a definitive end to mask-wearing and social distancing uncertain. Navigating quarantine and isolation as well as connecting with others ...