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Ask Alma: My Messy Co-Worker Has No Home Training
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist)Dear Alma,I work in a small accounting office of 16 people. We sit in cubicles very close to...
Stories about Brexit are all over the world’s newspapers and broadcast news networks.Voters in the United Kingdom...
Transgender Beatdown at the Diner
Fat Mack and I were meeting up for lunch at the diner to discuss a project we’re working on. Can’t talk about it here,...
Enough, already. I just finished looking over the MacArthur Community Violence Risk Assessment Study, done in 1998. The study was undertaken to look at how the...
Meet Aramis Ayala, Candidate for State Attorney
I had an opportunity recently to sit down and talk with Aramis Ayala, one of three candidates vying for the office of Orange County...
Someday soon, I will retire from weekly editorial writing. I can’t say I will never ever write future Gantt Report columns because God gave...
I am blessed to have had a number of men in my life who influenced me. Three in particular I remember during this time.I learned...
On Father’s Day, Pray for Peace and Work for Justice
“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called...
Muhammad Ali: A Fighter in and out of the Ring
“It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am.” — Muhammad Ali, Championship Boxer, American Activist, International Icon, 1942-2016How would you...
ASK ALMA: My Friend Invites Her Mother Everywhere We Go
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist)Dear Alma,My friend of over 15 years recently made the decision it was time for her and her...



