Since my first year of writing Ask Mary Jo, I’ve dedicated the Thanksgiving column to teens’ words. These expressions of gratitude are from teens at our Common Ground Teen Center. I wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday! Aujalae 17: I am thankful for many things, but one thing mostly ...

Teens share gratitude for Teen Center, community Last week, the teens at our Common Ground Teen Center held their monthly Teen Executive Board meeting. The center is staffed by teens and our alumni supervisor, Landan Weakland. The executive board plans activities and monitors our guidelines of ...

In honor of Banned Book Week 2024 (Sept. 22-28), I’m looking back at a poignant question posed to me two years ago by a 16-year-old. A Tennessee school district had just voted to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate ...