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BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is a member of the Kennedy family, a...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

FRED FIRST: Bones, Bits and Bytes – Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya 2024 . . .

And so it comes around once again: the passing of the winter solstice, after which, for reasons I don’t understand and with effects I...

SERWAN ZANGANA: The World is Watching Trump to End The War

While millions of Christians around the world on Christmas Day joyfully celebrated Jesus’ birthday and remembered his love, compassion, and peace for human beings,...

SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 1)

Many times we're so close to something we have a hard time seeing it, hence the old saying, "you can't see the forest for...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: What The Brain Can Do

Not long ago I wrote about my utter fascination with the art and science of . . . dreams. I mean think about it...

SCOTT DREYER: Letting Go

In what is becoming a Roanoke Star annual tradition around New Year's, here is a poem by unknown authorship, "Letting Go." To let go does...

RANDY HUFF: Christmas at Tinker Creek

“Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating.” If we spend “every waking minute saying hello to ourselves” we'll never learn a thing. I had a goal this year...