May 2022

Letters to the editor

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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson must wonder what she has gotten herself into

WASHINGTON -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson must be having second thoughts. When she takes her seat on the Supreme Court, she will be joining an institution whose out-of-control majority values religious dogma -- and raw political power -- over the freedoms our Constitution is supposed to guarantee. And she'll become the junior member of a club that increasingly seems riven by animosity.

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Shook takes helm of chamber

The Midlothian Chamber of Commerce didn’t have to look very far as it tapped Melissa Shook to be its next president and chief operating officer. “We are so excited to have her lead ing our Chamber,” the local Chamber said in a post on its website last week.

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