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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

DEVOTIONAL: Jesus’ 7 Sayings From The Cross (2)

 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:43 (NIV) Some people wonder, "Are some people so evil,...

FRED FIRST: Your County’s Birds – Overhead In The Dark

The tree swallows’ false alarm this year came three weeks earlier than last year, with first sighting on March 1. But then, these early birds, after...

MIKE KEELER: Just A Wee Bit of Mud . . .

Good morning baseball fans. It's the day you've been waiting for. America’s National Pastime has returned! Hope is springing, bats are swinging, lots of...

DEVOTIONAL: Jesus’ 7 Sayings From The Cross (1)

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.  --Luke 23:34...

FRED FIRST: Digital Maps to Nature Literacy – Part 1

We create tools to work for us: to dig foundations, to hoist steel girders for bridges, to record our words and thoughts for others...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Roanoke City Teen Curfew Will Fail Because It Ignores Root Causes

Imposing a teen curfew in Roanoke City will not reduce gun violence as the Citizens have already experienced such a rule in the past....