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ANDY PITZER: Silent Barter

Take a look at your salt shaker the next time you sit down at the dinner table. Or the canister of Morton’s Salt in your cupboard. Now take a gander...

FRED FIRST: Spaces: Inner, Outer & Other

I exist even still in a “liminal space” (which could be a whole other post—with...

ANDY PITZER: Paraphrasing GPT

When I come to think about it, probably the one thing I’m most proud of...

BOB BROWN: IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN, TAKE CARE 0F IT, PART THREE

This is A Brief Educational Summary of Neuroscience 101, Part THREE, our final section. These...

SERWAN ZANGANA: It’s time for positive change in Roanoke City, vote James Creasy for Sheriff

An enthusiastic and experienced law enforcement officer, a veteran deputy, is eager to bring changes...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: ICE Agents Need To Wear Face Masks

I read in Axios on July 31 that Virginia's two U.S. Senators, Tim Kaine (D) and Mark Warner (D), aka dumb and dumber, are planning to...

BOB BROWN: When Will It Ever End?

When and how did hatred of the Jews begin? When will it ever end? There is no other culture in history like the Jewish people. Its...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Traffic Stop

It was in a part of town that I don’t frequent. An area where the speed limit goes from 35 to 25. With no...

FRED FIRST: The Long Way Home

I don't think it would have been any harder to leave one of the kids behind when we moved away than to leave our...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hamas Is Responsible For The Horrible Hunger And Manufactured Malnutrition In The Gaza Strip – Part II

So, where has Hamas been getting food to feed themselves? They have been simply stealing or hijacking it from the U.N. collaborationists and food aid...

BOB BROWN: What’s Fitness Got To Do With It?

One word answers today’s question, “What does fitness have to do with it?” EVERYTHING is the correct reply if the “it” refers to LIFE...