Migrant crisis articles
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MPD participating in Crisis Intervention Training
MEDFORD, Ore.- The Medford Police Department is participating in Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) sessions. According to Rick Rawlins, Manager of Crisis Services for Jackson County Mental Health, officers from MPD along with OSP and CPPD are going through a forty-hour CIT session. Officers are guided through a real-life scenario to help review the skills they […]
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Mourning Migrants—with the Military’s Permission
It’s April Fool’s Day in Eagle Pass, but there’s nothing to laugh about here. On a cloudy spring evening, a dozen activists and spiritual leaders gather in a circle—just feet from the bank of the Rio Grande and a miles-long maze of concertina wire—with white carnations, daisies, and hymn lyrics in hand. This group has […]
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At last, a midlife-crisis novel that's not about a man
Many of the past century’s “great” novels have taken as their subjects middle-aged men who wake up one morning to discover that their boring, midlevel management jobs, their mediocre children and their aging wives are bumming them out, man. In the mid to late 20th century, literary lions such as Saul Bellow, John Updike and Philip Roth wrote fat novels about domestic life and American masculinity, and critics lauded them for their “universal” themes of upper- and middle-class men straining...