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ROBERT L. MARONIC: Why Were The U.S. Flags At Half-Mast On Saturday, April 26?

There is no phrase in the U.S. Constitution that explicitly uses the phrase "separation of church and state." However, the First Amendment, which is also known as the Establishment...

BOB BROWN: Journey to the Promised Land of Health

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is the United States...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Iran Is Playing Trump Like A Chump

Since Ayatollah Khomeini seized power on February 11, 1979, after the exile of the Shah of Iran the...

FRED FIRST: Lonesome Highway: Hurry Up and Wait

If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there? We...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17,...

Think Globally, Celebrate Locally: Floyd’s Sustainability Festival

The first community project for the new southwest Virginia grassroots organization, SustainFloyd, was to organize a local action towards Bill McKibben’s global efforts to...

My Life Would Have Been Better with a Less Predictable Curve

My right elbow and shoulder ache when it rains, and I blame it all on baseball. In the beginning of my abortive sports career,...

Preacher’s Corner: Looking at Life Through a “Dog-Slobbered” Window

It’s getting hard to see through the glass again.  Our Labrador is passive and sweet and attentive to us when we’re at home,...

The Recipe of the Week from The Happy Chef: October Bean Soup

This is my Dad’s bean soup recipe that he created! (Somewhere in heaven my mom must be so proud.) I often long to...

Preacher’s Corner: Washing Our Hands—and Souls

If you haven’t heard, it might be too late already. It’s flu season—or should we say, flu seasons. Not only do we have to...

Thoughts on Leadership

It’s that season again.  While it’s true, the air is cooler, the leaves are beginning to turn and pumpkins are beginning to appear –...