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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Semi-Singular Praise Of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA)

There are many aspects of California, which I strongly dislike: exorbitant state and local taxes, perennial devastating wildfires, the Democratic monopolist majority in Sacramento, drought, a proposed gasoline-powered car...

FRED FIRST: Nature Notes: Early May

Finally I am getting out a bit onto the trails before spring is fully gone...

BOB BROWN: “Teach Us to Number Our Days”

I was healthy and fit, a proponent of physical exercise, weighed myself daily with pleasing...

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,...

Late Summer on the Gaspe Peninsula

by John Robinson Twenty-two hours of driving from Virginia will get you well into Quebec. Of course, we had that problem with the blown...

Vegetables – Gone To The Dogs

by Mary Jo Shannon Last week my husband Harry and I enjoyed a surprise visit with my brother Frank and his wife Delores who...

Dragonfly Pest Control: A Free Global Service

by Fred First Even after being a biology watcher for decades, I learned something very interesting a few years ago when I chanced upon...

Music Takes Us Back and Moves Us Forward

by Joe Kennedy When the earth moved last Tuesday afternoon,  I did what Americans do -- I tried to  decide whom to blame. I've...

In Pursuit of Manners

by Keith McCurdy What is the biggest problem with kids today?  When I ask that question to a group of parents, I get many...

Tough Times

by Hayden Hollingsworth As Woody Allen famously said, “The bad thing about dying is that you don’t get to practice.”  True, but one can...