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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part II

Unfortunately, the U.S. is not the only country experiencing climate change. It is a global phenomenon without denial, despite what President Trump or MAGA believes and propagates. In late July,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hurricane Erin Is Our Future – Part I

I read a prescient and depressing article in the Associated Press written by Danica Coto on August 16,...

BOB BROWN: Woeful War on Common Sense

As a child, I loved to listen when my mother told stories. They tended to...

LUCKY GARVIN: CAN YOU HEAR ME?

He was out mowing the lawn, her robust eighty-year-old husband. Then, it seemed to her,...

SCOT BELLAVIA: What Are Alexa’s Pronouns?

I’ve heard it said that we've welcomed robots into our homes without hesitation because they...

When Jokes Are In The Genes

by Mary Jo Shannon A study of the Shannon genome would reveal, I suspect, that the Y chromosome contains a specific gene for playing practical...

Harry Burn Was A Good Boy

by Mike Keeler He was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1918 at the age of 22, making him its youngest member.  But in...

Recipe of the Week: Harry Potter Treacle Tart

by Leigh Sackett My son just had a Harry Potter birthday party and since I was a fan of the books long before he...

Cathedral of the Spirit By George Anderson

My wife and I had an opportunity to go to Greece to enjoy a vacation with my daughter, Paige, who lives in Eastern...

“We Have Met the Enemy and They Is Us”

by Hayden Hollingsworth Walt Kelly, on the first Earth Day in 1971, paraphrased Commander Oliver Perry’s message to General William Henry Harrison after the...

Two Pets – Two Perspectives . . .

by Lucky Garvin He has no sense of being less than any other. He is tolerant and urbane; and though we have many animals...
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