Renee Schafer Horton

OPINION: "Sam and I disagree on many issues, but if we weren’t talking, it would be very easy to let those disagreements morph into disgust, and have us turn each other into caricatures of 'our side.' I don’t want that to happen, even if people on the extremes encourage that very thing," writes regular Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "The upshot of "Old Enough!" is demonstrating the benefit of building a child’s self-confidence early through completion of real-life, difficult tasks. Compare this to, say, the U.S. practice of participation trophies for everyone," writes Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "That’s where we come in, folks. If you’re concerned about global warming, call your elected officials monthly and tell them you’ll vote for them if they back carbon pricing," writes Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

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OPINION: "He’d arrived from Dallas for Thanksgiving week the prior night and was staying at his sister’s house, but happened to be out near our home and thought he’d pop in. As he joked about me leaving my doors unlocked and gave me the aforementioned hug, I couldn’t help but think how different things were just a year ago," writes regular Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Big Tech profits by selling eyeballs to their advertisers. Their growth strategy is getting younger and younger audiences hooked on their addictive platforms. Their growth strategy, hear me clearly, is your children. While we wait for needed government regulation, millions of kids staring at blue screens are becoming more and more programmed by their phones," writes regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "The acceptance of prior infection isn’t a get-out-of-vaccination-forever pass because said recovery has to have been in the past six months. But it gives COVID survivors breathing room to consider vaccination while they participate in public life," writes Tucsonan Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Most importantly, the system is classist, keeping whole swaths of middle and lower-income children out of the sports pipeline," writes Star regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION:  "I think abortion is horrific and that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided because the right to privacy applies only to an individual’s own life and body, not someone else’s life and body," writes our regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Verizon retail agents, along with every other front-line worker, got tired of being the dumping ground for our bad moods. Verizon wanted to remind everyone that behind the masks, we all need kindness," writes our regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "This past year was awful in many ways, but one positive was an opportunity to reevaluate how we live and how that affects our families, communities, nation and the planet," writes our regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "The transition from isolation to “Hey! Give me a hug, you adorable human being!” was jarring, to say the least," writes our regular contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Yes, it is your right to decline the vaccine for whatever reason you have. It is not, however, your right to be a walking public health hazard," writes regular Star contributor Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "We can do better than this in a country that claims to be pro-life and pro-family, and President Joe Biden’s audacious American Families Plan puts us on that path," writes our Tucson columnist Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "CHS is a special place filled with students who have a million strikes against them who nonetheless hope the promise of education leading to a better life still holds true," writes our Tucson columnist Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Victims' lives are blown open and torn apart and like Humpty Dumpty, we’re not always able to be put back together again," writes our columnist Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "When, years after outgrowing story time, two of my children said they wanted to be in a library if a natural disaster ever occurred, I felt as if I had nothing more to do as a parent," writes our local columnist, Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: "Despite what all Arizonans desperately want, we can’t have in-person schooling this fall. Unless, of course, we’re willing to think outside the box. Or in this case, outside the building," writes our local columnist Renée Schafer Horton.

OPINION: Tucson columnist Renée Schafer Horton recalls testy interactions with a small town Texas police officer that would have gone differently if she was black. 

Opinion: "One of Christianity’s primary tenets is to love your neighbor and right now, loving your neighbor means staying away from him, writes Tucson columnist Renée Schafer Horton.

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