September 2021

Ground zero rebuilding still unfinished, 20 years later

NEW YORK (AP) — Two decades after its destruction in the Sept. 11 attacks, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex remains incomplete.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Calendar Guidelines

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Communities come together for hurricane relief

This time last year, donations were pouring in from all over the country for areas in SWLA that were devastated by Hurricanes Laura and Delta.

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The ‘rural purge’ of 1971

In mid-1971, I experienced a most distressing visit to the dentist.

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Two questions about Afghan refugees

Biden administration officials are proud of their effort to airlift about 118,000 Afghans, plus somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 U.S. citizens, from the Kabul airport in the final days of the president’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. But still unanswered are two key questions: One, who did we leave behind? And two, who did we bring out?