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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...

Darwin for Modernity

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. On 24 November 2010, the world celebrated the 151st anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin...

A Year End Review is Good for the Soul

In less than a month’s time, we will be in a new year - just when I finally perfected writing 2010 on my...

Daytime TV Programming Should Heal the Sickest Among Us

It's no fun being sick.  Last week I was re-visited by a frequent, yet unwanted guest; a rather large and stubborn kidney stone...

Local Doctors Overcome Adversity and Inspire

One of the services offered by WVTF, our National Public Radio affiliate, is little known:  Reading for the visually handicapped.  On a special...

A Little Latin Goes A Long Way

This essay is just a draft.  If it were final, it wouldn't contain the well-known phrase, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci...

Turkey Wild Rice Soup

Leftovers, leftovers, what to do with all the leftovers! Well my favorite leftover cuisine is to mix turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing into...