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BOB BROWN: Recent Sale of Brooklyn Bridge, Part Two

In 2025, America’s fertility rate reaches a historic low, while Muslim and Arab communities maintain larger family growth. These groups have bigger households than the national average, shaped by...

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...

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,...

Faithful Waiting

A young couple learns that they are pregnant.  The first days upon making this discovery are filled with the waxing and waning sensations of...

What’s An Education For Anyway?

In the 1950s when I attended Mary Baldwin College religious diversity was obvious in our "Day Student Club."  My friends included two Roman...

One Subaru – Sunny Side Up

It was miserable, cold and wet. The wind made the umbrella in my hand a pathetic mockery of shelter from the storm. It would...

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...