If we don’t learn to consider how our behavior impacts those around us, we are doomed – at best – to lives that lack peace.

I am personally very proud to have a governor who didn’t embarrass the people of the Virgin Islands by passing along the severely flawed draft constitution hammered out in the carnival atmosphere created by a small group of die-hard disrupters.

While bicycling this morning, my husband and a companion came upon a severely injured, apparently stray dog lying in the road. Whoever left her there broke the law; but there's more to it than just that.

Cranford High School seniors in the 60s had a tradition of skipping school on a certain day in June every year. On that day classrooms were lonely places for those whose parents forbade them to participate in the annual final act of defiance and celebration before going on to the "real" world.

I was born and spent the first 13 or so years of my life in Binghamton, New York. Terrorism brought about by the stupefying availability of guns in our country has forever changed my childhood memories of that little city in New York's Southern Tier.

A few delegates are making a mockery of the Constitutional Convention process.

For too long taxi drivers, who are routinely rude to tourists and who are even heard telling lies to visitors to the island of St. Thomas, have held back progress on our water-surrounded island.

We must commend the courage and dignity of the young person who saved Max from further abuse by releasing the abused dog from captivity and seeing that the helpless canine lived.

The Public Services Commission should have played hardball with Vitelco during the Prosser years, but now it needs to avoid driving away buyers that could finally give the territory a functional phone company.

In the election of Barack Obama to the highest office in our nation, we have reason to hope we can regain peace, fiscal responsibility, political integrity and world-wide respect.