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ROBERT L. MARONIC: When Is Trump’s Promise To Iran That “Help Is On The Way” Finally Going To Happen?

There was a horrific, chaotic carnage in the streets of Iran during a nationwide protest on January 8 and 9. Tens of thousands of unarmed protesters were shot dead in an indiscriminate slaughter...

FRED FIRST: Missouri’s Capitol City: First-Time Tourist

I could not possibly do justice to my first visit a half hour south of...

BOB BROWN: The Triumph of Terrible Feelings Over Judgment

Today, our way of life is dominated by powerful, fast-moving, extreme emotions — especially anger,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: President Trump Owes The UK An Apology

I read a disturbing and disquieting article in the New York Times on January 23 entitled,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) Is a Defeatist

I read an article in the New York Post by Emily Crane on January 26 entitled,...

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...