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BOB BROWN: The Recent Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge, Part One

The 2025 election results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Seattle are troubling to me, a student of the human mind. The election of “democratic socialists,” and the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men,...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises...

BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

The round, sad Asian American face of the 26-year-old single Soldier sitting uncomfortably in front...

SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I...

BARBARA Leach: Small Garden Plants

Let’s face it.  Most of us do not live in a sprawling mansion on a large tract of land.  Our landscape needs are for...

Derecho, or Out of Gas in Fairfield

     Derecho. That’s what the weather gurus called it. And soon that unfamiliar word was on everyone’s lips. It was sensational. That unique weather phenomenon...

DICK BAYNTON: The Uneducated Tycoon

Born in Freeport, IL Kenneth E. Behring was raised from age 4 in the small town of Monroe, Wisconsin. He died in June at...

How To Throw Out Your Phone On A Summer Road Trip

When you go on your summer vacation, such as a road trip in a rented Bakersfield party bus for example, can you also take...

DICK BAYNTON: Selective Justice

Dear Friends: It is time for us to have a discussion about something that should be at the top of the political, government and...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Death of The Sheriff

Sometimes I feel like I’m Commander-in-Chief of Camp Krazy. I arrive at work; 7 AM. Maybe a half hour later, I get a call from...