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BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part III

Being elderly is a full-time job. It could be the best job you ever had, but it will never be the easiest. Even Billy Graham, the preeminent spiritual leader...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Running For President in 2028? – Part I

I strongly suspect that the self-assured and arrogant Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is going to be a presidential or...

FRED FIRST: But Is It Art?

I have mentioned before that I have recently found pleasure and pleasant distraction in the...

BECKY MAUPIN: A New Season, New Expectations

Motherhood, I'm learning, is a series of seasons. None of them are truly easy; they're...

BOB BROWN: Aging Poetically, Part II

Jan called today. “Ed died Thursday… he is in a better place.” Ed, a retired...

H. BRUCE RINKER: A Delegation of Ostriches

These days, our three branches of Government seem rife with ostriches. Whenever it’s politically expedient, their members flock to the nearest sand box to stab...

DICK BAYNTON: Immigration Reality Check

If a person breaks into a bank, law enforcement officials hunt down the perpetrator, incarcerate that person while gathering evidence, conduct interrogations and finally...

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...