Stories by Dana D. Kelley

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Facts for context

    Our emotions are wonderful things. They give us incredible capacity for great good in the world. They power our hope against all odds, our faith beyond what we…

    by Dana D. Kelley June 5, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Post-pandemic predictions

    Change has proven to be a corollary pandemic to coronavirus. It has spread to every aspect of life: the ways we think, feel and behave; the ways we work, shop …

    by Dana D. Kelley May 8, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Testing positive for ...

    The clarion call right now in the coronavirus crisis is for more testing. The data that will follow as larger percentages of the population are tested will sub…

    by Dana D. Kelley April 24, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Rule of confusion

    You may remotely remember Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the Democrat given the hapless task of delivering the party's response to the State of the Union ad…

    by Dana D. Kelley April 17, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Population perspective

    Novel virus pandemics produce panic, plain and simple. There are just too many people simultaneously knowing too little and fearing too much. Panic by definiti…

    by Dana D. Kelley April 10, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Miracle over Mother Nature

    Though few Americans recognize the name of Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita, many are familiar with the eponymous rating system he developed to measure damaging wind speed…

    by Dana D. Kelley April 3, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: More 'clarifications' needed

    A couple of weeks back, I expressed a "what might have been" lamentation over The 1619 Project, which is a New York Times Magazine initiative created back in A…

    by Dana D. Kelley March 27, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Fear not

    The old legend--that there are 365 different appearances of the phrase "Fear not" in the Bible, one for each day of the year--doesn't really stand up to scruti…

    by Dana D. Kelley March 20, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: History it ain't

    Here's how to sum up the saddest thing about "The 1619 Project" as promoted by The New York Times Magazine: what might have been.

    by Dana D. Kelley March 13, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Health-care milestone

    When it comes to the worst health-care rankings, there but for the grace of Mississippi goes Arkansas. According to America's Health Rankings, the Natural Stat…

    by Dana D. Kelley March 6, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Debates in disarray

    Having recently belly-laughed through a national tour production of The Play That Goes Wrong, I don't think the Democratic National Committee planners could ha…

    by Dana D. Kelley February 28, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Preventive focus

    Two years ago today, there wasn't room in any child's mind at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., for anything except chaotic, uncontrolled…

    by Dana D. Kelley February 14, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: A union of states

    Sometimes the plainest truths get trampled by the subtlety of routine. That's why periodic reminders play an important role in our ongoing democratic experimen…

    by Dana D. Kelley February 7, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: An education in education

    Letters to the editor are always inspiring. Whenever a citizen is engaged enough with an issue to write or type out an opinion and submit it before "the public…

    by Dana D. Kelley January 31, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Name, function disconnect

    When Lake Superior State University announced its 45th Annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness a c…

    by Dana D. Kelley January 17, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: A lifesaving idea

    Two years ago in Texas, we saw one of the worst-case church-shooting scenarios when a gunman slaughtered 26 people in a sanctuary where no one else was armed.

    by Dana D. Kelley January 3, 2020

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Just Google it

    Usage of the giant search engine company's name as a verb is nothing new, and a continuing testament to its crushing domination of market share for the U.S. an…

    by Dana D. Kelley December 27, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: In the beginning ...

    Of all the national holidays we celebrate, Christmas is the most ancient, pre-dating our American genesis by about 14 centuries as a Christian celebration. Som…

    by Dana D. Kelley December 20, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Cultural clarion call

    In the field of medicine, treating only a symptom can result in catastrophic results. Symptoms themselves are indicators of underlying causes or conditions of …

    by Dana D. Kelley December 13, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Hyperbolic confusion

    When looked back upon as history, the hyperbole-infused polarity of our political times will generate condescending head shakes, and not a few "can-you-believe…

    by Dana D. Kelley November 29, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Religious 'nones'

    We tend to mush our synonyms in these polarized, sound-bite times, but as the nation turns toward its uniquely American holiday, we're reminded of a shining ex…

    by Dana D. Kelley November 15, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Grand finale

    To modify an old Celtic axiom: If you're lucky enough to have living grandparents, you're lucky enough.

    by Dana D. Kelley November 8, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Wrong education direction

    Home to the nation's largest school district, New York City is often influential on educational matters and thinking. Big mistake.

    by Dana D. Kelley November 1, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Striking crime revelations

    Cities, with their veiling anonymity and close, crowded groupings of populations, have always produced more crime than sparsely populated areas. That's a gener…

    by Dana D. Kelley October 11, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: FBI report needs revamp

    Reading the FBI's news release on the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting statistics is a prime example of meaningless national information that colors public opinion.

    by Dana D. Kelley October 4, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Hometown reminiscence

    Just days after saying hello and goodbye to old and often faraway classmates at my Walnut Ridge High School reunion, I was confronted with another farewell rip…

    by Dana D. Kelley September 27, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: No surprise, really

    N o matter who sponsors the survey--the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation or the Annenberg Public Policy Center--year after year, the results and c…

    by Dana D. Kelley September 20, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Team Jonesboro's gift

    Two hundred-eleven votes. In Tuesday's context as the margin of defeat for Jonesboro's proposed sales tax, the figure is reminiscent of Della's one dollar and …

    by Dana D. Kelley September 13, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Self-government foundation

    Smart conservatives support local taxation for a number of solid reasons, but none more important than this one: It's the first-order foundation of self-govern…

    by Dana D. Kelley September 6, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Glimpse of a gun criminal

    Gun-control advocates need to get out more. Specifically, they need to meet some of the real people who repeatedly commit gun crimes.

    by Dana D. Kelley August 30, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: More activists needed

    There's a strong surplus of activists for a cause, a group, or a gripe. What's in short supply is people pursuing activism for strong citizenship.

    by Dana D. Kelley August 23, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Sound of a crisis

    High-decibel discussions of a "gun crisis" have been pushed to fever pitch following massacres in Texas and Ohio. Meanwhile, Chicago and other cities battle ma…

    by Dana D. Kelley August 16, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Warped minds

    Mass shootings are anomalies; statistical and social aberrations. Each mass shooting is an individually perpetrated event, in which the shooter bears 100 perce…

    by Dana D. Kelley August 9, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Gun and hate crime

    The simple fact is too many criminals carry guns. Some people wishfully believe that more restrictive gun laws will affect lawbreakers' propensity in this rega…

    by Dana D. Kelley July 26, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Death-penalty deterrence

    Having crested midyear, we're on the downward slope to 2020. Approaching a year whose numerals symbolize perfect vision is a good time to consider sharpening t…

    by Dana D. Kelley July 19, 2019

  • DANA D. KELLEY: Neverland of the free

    The free-for-all that the Democratic presidential candidate forums have become is quite a spectacle. As if anything governmental can ever be free.

    by Dana D. Kelley July 12, 2019

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