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DAWN CUSTALOW: Pocahontas Reframed and Thanksgiving

I just returned from the 9th annual Pocahontas Reframed film festival 2025 in Richmond, VA, which is held right before Thanksgiving each year. The festival reframes Native American life...

SCOTT DREYER: “Forgive Me When I Whine”

This poem, of unclear authorship, reportedly comes from the dark Great Depression days of the...

BOB BROWN: Recent Sale of Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

In 2025, America’s fertility rate reaches a historic low, while Muslim and Arab communities maintain...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump‘s Decision To Release The Epstein Files Is Overdue

I read an article in the New York Post on November 16 entitled “Trump says House Republicans should...

ANDY PITZER: Amtrak Trek: Lake Shore Limited/Southwest Chief/Empire Builder

NYC TO CHI: Lakeshore Limited (NY, MA, PA, OH, IN, IL) The first leg of the Amtrak train...

MELINDA MYERS: Plant This Fall For a Colorful Spring Display

It’s time to think spring. Fall is the time to plant tulips, daffodils, crocus and other spring flowering bulbs. Use these early bloomers to...

SCOTT DREYER: America’s Has A Short Memory When It Comes To First Responders

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.  -- John 15:13 On this date, we remember the horrific attacks...

MIKE KEELER: The World’s First Telecommunications Center

"Tel Aviv, this is Telephone Pole calling. Telephone Pole calling, come in, Tel Aviv"...hmm, they're not answering... the line must be dead. But not so...

SCOTT DREYER: Maynard Keller Offers Strong Alternative For Roanoke City Council

But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Chemotherapy: What’s it All About, Anyway?

It really was not part of my ambition to get Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, but I sure did. It's a kind of cancer...

SCOTT DREYER: 7-7: Irrelevant Proselytizing? Or Honest Truth?

Many folks have a renewed interest in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” where the people of England live under the all-seeing dictator “Big Brother.”...