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SCOTT DREYER: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

As adults, it is important to think of what messages we are giving the children in our lives about the meaning and celebration of Christmas. Ponder this: “Christmas Through the Eyes...

FRED FIRST: Birds of a Feather

We were invited to join some geologist-birder friends for an outing last week that would...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Mr. President, Just Shut The H*ll Up

Nick Reiner, 32, the cocaine addicted and schizophrenic son of famed Hollywood sitcom actor, prolific...

BOB BROWN: “A Multitude of the Heavenly Host”

For many years, the Hon. B. Waugh Crigler, a former federal magistrate, taught the Men’s...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Annex Ukraine Now

Steve Witkoff, acting as personal envoy for President Trump, first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin...

MELINDA MYERS: Consider Fall Leaves a Gift from Nature

Put fall leaves to work in your landscape. This valuable resource makes a great mulch in planting beds, adds organic matter and nutrients to...

SCOT BELLAVIA: Hometown Envy

Often when I went out of state as a child, I wished I had grown up in the places I visited. Whenever I stayed with...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Needs To Golf on U.S. Department of Defense Courses

There have been two attempts to assassinate former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13 and in West Palm Beach, Florida on September...

Leveraging Tennis to Combat Youth Mental Health Challenges

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns that today's youth mental health crisis is the "defining public health issue of our time." He's right. American adolescents...

SCOTT DREYER: Roanoke County Swamps Polls In Early Voting

Some complain that "Election Day" has now become "Election Season." Early voting began across the Old Dominion on Friday, Sept. 20, which puts Virginia...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Cultural Destruction, Wars’ Drama Destabilize All Peoples

Humans are the producers of their cultures, and they are also the contributors to their own cultural destruction. It is the ongoing equation of...