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BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers had safely returned from an unprecedented successful attack on Iran’s fortresses of nuclear weapon...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

Time to Bail?

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. Colleagues and friends Tony Oppersdorff and Kyrill Schabert published a delightful collaborative paperback in 2011 entitled “Best Nature Sites...

Taking Things for Granted

by Hayden Hollingsworth That’s a phrase that often has negative connotations but there are some things that we ought to be able to take...

“Do a Little Less”

by Keith McCurdy Let’s all do a little less for our children this week.  I mean it, let’s do a little less.  Oh, I...

A Very Good Use of Technology

by Mary Jo Shannon Checking my email one evening, I was surprised to see one from my daughter Kathy with the intriguing subject line...

Big Government – Small Job Growth

by Dick Baynton A new national JOBS report came out recently from the US Department of Labor. According to the report, unemployment fell to...

P. Buckley Moss – The People’s Artist

by Mary Jo Shannon Upon my retirement from the Shedd Early Learning Center in 1988, the parents and faculty gave me a signed print...