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BOB BROWN: “Teach Us to Number Our Days”

I was healthy and fit, a proponent of physical exercise, weighed myself daily with pleasing results, known for immodesty about how formerly and regularly I ran the Virginia 10...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Sanction Russia’s Shadow Fleet NOW

During the 2024 presidential campaign and going back to March 2023, President Trump repeatedly and...

DAWN CUSTALOW: A Mother’s Day to Remember

Mother’s Day - remembering and celebrating our mothers, not because they are or were perfect,...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Helplessly Hoping

When we had two consecutive years of testing to compare in June of 2022, Ann...

RANDY HUFF: Know When to Hold Your Peace

“Why don't you say your piece?” I asked my friend. “It need not be public....

Lessons Not Learned

One of the saddest facts of history is that the lessons it offers are rarely used in planning the future. When injustices result in...

About War & Peace

George Bush and Dick Cheney have been condemned as warmongers. The conflict in Iraq was ignited for two reasons. Retribution for the 9/11 death...

Smart from the Start

During the last week of May, I attended the Mexican International Renewable Energy Congress in México City. With thousands of delegates from Latin America,...

CSI Bluebird

It’s one thing to have the proper setting for bluebird nesting but quite another to successfully raise a brood. Nature is not the kind...

How Our Bureaucracy Works

According to my dictionary, a bureaucracy is a government run by bureaucrats. However, bureaucracies develop in most organizations where there are 25 or more...

“Weeds” for Wildlife

One of the best ways to obtain plants for wildlife is simply to allow “weeds” to grow. Many of these so-called weeds are quite...