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BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers had safely returned from an unprecedented successful attack on Iran’s fortresses of nuclear weapon...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

MIKE KEELER: Fifty Years Later, Paul McCartney is Still Alive

The rumor that he was dead actually started in 1966, when college kids heard that he'd been killed in car a crash and replaced...

LUCKY GARVIN: Phenomena

When Sabrina and I first began rehabbing as a team nearly twenty years ago, any reasonable person, asked the question: Will Lucky or Sabrina...

EDWARD WRIGHT HAILE: Ponds

Who can think of any prayer not answered by sunlight through high green deciduousness walking a forest floor divvied among ponds and wings? - Edward Wright Haile  - from...

DICK BAYNTON: Introspection to Intrepidity

Today’s column is about women. Ladies who did some pensive introspection and transformed their thoughts into actions of intrepidity. This means they did some...

DR. JAMES FINCK: Dictatorship

I recently saw a post on social media asking why conservatives are so concerned with socialism when what they should be concerned about is...

MELINDA MYERS: Protect Your Winter Landscape From Hungry Wildlife

There’s no doubt that managing critters in the landscape can be a challenge especially as food supplies start to dwindle. If you are battling...