More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to compete both nationally and globally and help drive economic growth.

It takes bold direction and leadership to heal a divided nation.

The job of the press is to defend their institution, hold the government accountable and freely report and gather information.

Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.