Deborah Trefts

"Cyberethics” is missing from Webopedia’s list of 29 commonly used words that contain the “cyber” prefix. Tellingly, “cyberbuck,” “cyberbully,” “cyberjockey,” “cybernaut,” “cyberprise,” “cyberslacking,” “cybersquatting” and “cyberzine” are included and defined, but not “cyberethics.” Embedded in

Followers of the online announcements and requests service, “Chautauqua Grapevine,” are aware that another crime novel by Deb Pines is out — Vengeance is Mine: A Chautauqua Murder Mystery. One of Pines’ characters, Cynthia Merriweather,

There’s no time like the present to come forward and take a stand for a world in which power and possibility for females — regardless of class, race, sexual identity, age or any other factor

According to a national survey conducted by Public Religion Research Institute and Florida State University in 2017, 31 percent of Americans are neither religious nor spiritual; 29 percent are both; 22 percent are religious but

Audacious, legendary and visionary painter Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was the granddaughter of a Hungarian count, daughter of Wisconsin dairy farmers and the “Mother of American modernism.” At 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, in Bratton Theater,

Barbara Mikulski In New York state, in preparation for the 2018 U.S. general election, official postcards with polling location information arrived in the mail this summer. Candidate mailings for the Sept. 13 state primary election and the

If a person happens to be in Paris on the first Sunday in October, they may be able to catch Avivah Wittenberg-Cox speaking (in French) at Le Monde Festival, Le Monde newspaper’s annual conference. This

Ongoing acts of loving kindness, inclusivity and hopefulness are intrinsic to Edith Brenner Everett’s very being. Savvy planning, follow-through and hands-on involvement have transformed her bold visions into reality beyond expectation. The Everett Jewish Life

Who better to give a tax talk than a featured guest on an episode of NPR’s weekly comedy show, “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!”? “I’ve put in every joke I know about taxes,” T.R.

For about one-fifth of all Americans, life is as good as it gets. For the other four-fifths — the majority of America — life is pretty miserable. So said Chautauquan Peter Andrew Georgescu, who, having

At all levels of government in 2018, women have been running in unprecedented numbers for elected office — nearly 600 for Congress and governorships alone. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 28, in CARR the

Barbara Vackar In 2015, to honor her friend and fellow feminist, Barbara Ann Ellison Vackar, Chautauqua Foundation Board of Directors Chair Cathy Bonner established a special annual lecture within the Chautauqua Women’s Club’s Contemporary Issues

Introducing and questioning Amphitheater lecturers, speaking periodically at the Wednesday morning Leadership Porch Discussions at the Hultquist Center and attending the weekly strategic planning listening sessions in the Hall of Christ — These are a

For many, midlife is synonymous with crisis, and crises are to be avoided or prepared for with trepidation. For others, midlife represents a significant turning point. It’s a reminder that lifespans aren’t infinite and that

In the United States, college has always been costly. Even when it was not as prohibitively expensive as it is now, it was common for families to send only their sons to college. Yet to

Thomas Jefferson is coming to town. More precisely: the model for the Jefferson statues in the state of Virginia’s capitol building and the library at West Point, and for Jefferson’s image in videos shown at