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DEVOTIONAL: Thanks, Mom!
Her children rise up and call her blessed -- Prov. 31:28a (ESV)
We celebrate Mother's Day once a year, but how can we adequately express our gratitude? For starters, if...
MORGAN GRIFFITH: Is Government Research Safe?
It has been roughly four and a half years since the start of the COVID-19...
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler,...
FRED FIRST: To The End of The End of The Book
The uncertainty and never-ending unknowing may soon end. For the past year, there has been...
SCOT BELLAVIA: A Chance Rescue
Normally, I wouldn’t have been driving home. I went to church early to set up...
MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH
Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day back in April 2020, when the world was...
FRED FIRST: My Wee Musical Man-Cave
Digital Tones and Frets and Reeds: Oh My!A month ago this small room behind me was just my office. Now it is also my...
SERWAN ZANGANA: FISA Continues to Allow Spying on American / Foreign Citizens
The U.S House and Senate voted to reauthorize the surveillance program, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was enacted in 2008, gives the FBI...
RANDY HUFF: Estate Sales, Letting Go, and Hope
I see the yard and trees and driveway through the window and I wonder if anything stays the same.
In '61 a man and woman...
Roanoke Voters Will Need to Let The Current Council Out and A New Council In
What a surprise, another shooting on Sunday morning in Roanoke City! Indeed no, it is not a surprise. Roanoke City Council members and Mayor...
FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .
We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door
THE RECAPThe storyline for the past 6 months has been the tale...