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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...

A Checklist of Little Monsters: Don’t Read This If You’re an Arachnophobe!

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. For us scientists, checklists of flora and fauna are all-important tools that indicate our proficiency in the natural world. ...

Is Honesty Your Policy?

by Stephanie Koehler I have been thinking a lot about truth and honesty lately.  It seems to be a topic that permeates the public landscape...

Looking for Tolerant and Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion by Quigg Lawrence

There is nothing worse than a dogmatic zealot who cannot have a discussion with someone who holds an opposite view without resulting to...

Six-legged Plagues Afflict Farm and Forest

by Fred First The color purple is not so common in nature, and so it immediately grabs our attention when we round a bend on...

Recipe of the Week: Slumber Party Pretzels

by Leigh Sackett Ten might be a magical number. I say this because my daughter will turn ten on June 2nd and working towards...

A Thousand Resurrections by Gary Robbins

On Friday, May 5, my father was on an operating table in Richmond. Two months earlier, on March 11, he had suffered a heart...