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ANDY PITZER: No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for those whose locale has four separate seasons, those who do not have them and...

BOB BROWN: “I Remember World War II”

On December 7, 1941, my sister, Edith, eight years my senior, and I were in...

FRED FIRST: Go West At Last, Old Man

Decades of frugality have come abruptly to an end. I have made the choice to...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Bring Back The War Department

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a prescient and heartfelt speech in Chautauqua, New York, on...

FRED FIRST: Changing of the Guard

The theme for the Lenoir Words Writers Group this month is AUTUMN. And since I...

DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”

As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent disasters of Hurricane Helene and now the fires raging...

SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)

Part 1, for January-July, is here. AUGUST Democrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque, unprecedented step of having a mobile unit parked right...

FRED FIRST: Alien Plants In An Altered World

For those of us who only watch helplessly on the evening news from our living rooms, the devastating scenes from southern California are difficult...

New Orleans Terror Attack, Radical Islam and The U.S’s Obligation to Destroy Its Ideology

     The atrocious attack of Shamsud-Din Jabbar - American born and a veteran who plowed a truck into a crowd in New Orleans...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Native American Perspective on The N.Y Times “1619 Project”

The 1619 Project is gaining more traction in the media since its unveiling last year in the New York Times magazine. Its premise -...

FRED FIRST: Walking In Time

Despite the ice and snow outside this morning, it already feels like we’ve turned the corner towards spring. The days are getting longer, if...

ANDY PITZER: No Offseason