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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

DICK BAYNTON: A New Kind of Crony Capitalism

Today’s column is about companies named ‘Tesla’, ‘Solar City’, ‘SpaceX’, PayPal,  X.com, Zip2, OpenAI (Artificial Intelligence), The Boring Company (pneumatic tube travel), Neuralink (integrating...

DICK BAYNTON: The Hypocrisy of Teachers Unions

Newspapers, TV, Internet and radio have been following the recent teacher’s strikes in Oklahoma, Arizona and West Virginia. Strikes, demonstrations, pickets with signs and...

Hayden Hollingsworth: Can We Believe It?

The picture of the smiling Kim Jong Un and Moon Jai-in stepping across the line dividing North and South Korea does tend to stretch...

DICK BAYNTON: Teenage Workers – Participate and Liberate

When high school graduates hung up their diplomas during and after WWII, Korea and Vietnam, many chose or were required to enter one of...

LUCKY GARVIN: Eden Lies in The Eyes of The Beholder.

I have recently become convinced that much like beauty, Eden lies in the eyes of the beholder. Ordinarily, and forgivably, when we hear the words:...

BRUCE RINKER: A Damn Butterfly Chaser

Who was Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998)? An author and conservationist well remembered for her famous 1947 book, “The Everglades: River of Grass.” The book...