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FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of home to the Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City yesterday. But I will go...

BOB BROWN: The Triumph of Terrible Feelings Over Judgment

Today, our way of life is dominated by powerful, fast-moving, extreme emotions — especially anger,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Owes The UK An Apology

I read a disturbing and disquieting article in the New York Times on January 23 entitled,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) Is a Defeatist

I read an article in the New York Post by Emily Crane on January 26 entitled,...

BOB BROWN: Loss of the Sense of the Sacred

During World War II, men went to war and women went to work. But where...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world expanded from those years of living in a tight-knit...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first time since 2003. The notion, this particular bizarro year,...

BOB BROWN: Midnight of the Soul

There is a time when our situation seems too much to bear. It may be physical, mental, or spiritual agony. Our life may have...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is Wrong To Defund The Voice of America

One of my earliest childhood memories was listening to the BBC during the evening on my father’s Grundig shortwave radio with him in 1963....

SCOT BELLAVIA: On Reading

For all their differences, books by writers about writing agree on one thing: To be a writer, you must be a reader. So, I...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: The On-Ramp

Alzheimer’s cruelty is told only in part by the time it takes to show itself and be named. Some sources say that the first anatomical...