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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 vote to release Epstein files in stunning reversal: “‘Nothing to hide, ’” written by Zoe...

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...

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...

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...

Tending the Garden by Stuart Revercomb

This summer I planted a very nice garden on my land in Callaway. I had two rows of carrots, four rows of lima...

Sweet and Sad – The Timing of Life

by Lucky Garvin Had I arrived 60 seconds sooner or sixty seconds later, I would have missed one of the sweetest, saddest things that...

Trouble In The Classroom

by Mary Jo Shannon Only once during my elementary school days did I find myself in trouble with school authorities. The memory of that...

Living Within Our Means, Means Knowing Our Limits

by Fred First I recently read these headlines, and was oddly encouraged: “Europe has already run out of fish for the year.” I’ll share with...

My, My . . . How They Grow Up and We Don’t

by Jon Kaufman Can a young man who once attempted to clean his room with a gas powered leaf blower survive the wilds of...

Stas FUNK is here!

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to...