Retiring teacher, coach urges Colony grads to ‘find their 68’
By Jeremiah Bartz Frontiersman.com A football coach using a hockey reference as the centerpiece for his keynote address may
Charles Hayes
49 articles
(Page 3)
Hating the government bandwagon
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Lately I’ve been preoccupied with novelist Saul Bellow’s observation that people, especially
America’s adult learning crisis
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices For three decades I’ve been writing about the merits and rewards of self-
The false allure of gridlock
By Charles D. Hayes Pretend for a moment a medical checkup reveals that you may be on the verge of
Racism egregiously misunderstood
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Growing up in the South during the 1940s and ’50s, I had no idea
Belief and the residue of honor
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Wouldn’t it have been great if, when we were growing up, there had
CEOs assert the license to loot
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Three decades ago, futurist John Naisbitt asserted that “it is easier to ride a
Movies, memories of our racist past
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices In 2011, Stephanie Coontz published “A Strange Stirring,” a book about the status of
Valley Voices-Wingnuts of America, I salute you
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices In the movie “Gladiator,” at the opening of the games, an arena combatant says,
The approaching gray asteroid
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Instantaneous annihilation by a massive object from space seems like a merciful death compared
Putting worldviews in perspective
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Imagine visitors from another planet landing on the Earth and drawing up a profile
Politics: It’s about identity, stupid
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Identity is the lifeblood of politics. It’s what really matters, and in too
Fight indifference with learning, maturity
By Charles D. Hayes Valley Voices Picture a young man who’s born and raised in the post-war South,