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SCOT BELLAVIA: They’re Not Dumb, They’re Nonverbal

They say if you’ve met one person with autism…then you’ve met one person with autism. It turns out that when they also have apraxia, you didn’t meet them the...

RANDY HUFF: You Don’t Know What’s There Until You Do

I am reading Pilgrim at Tinker Creek this year, the 50th year of its publishing....

FRED FIRST: Turning Points of Note From a Season of Change

First night: Middle of April: The sliding doors are open with nothing but the screens to...

MELINDA MYERS: Dig, Divide and Boost Your Garden’s Beauty

Overcrowded, poor flowering, and floppy perennials can be invigorated with a shovel and a bit...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Let Prime Minister Netanyahu Defeat Hamas In The Gaza Strip

In January 2014 former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (2006-11) bluntly stated that Joe Biden had...

DICK BAYNTON: Does Liberalism Equal Anarchy?

In case you haven’t read or heard about it many of the streets of San Francisco are strewn with human waste, dirty injection needles,...

DICK BAYNTON: The USA: World’s Largest Debtor and Largest Donor

Budgets are highly important in our lives and the two most important items to be budgeted are ‘time’ and ‘financial resources and responsibilities.’ Other...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Indian Coup

I heard two interesting stories the other day re: Native Americans who had been involved in the Vietnam war. Native Americans suffered a far lower...

MIKE KEELER: King of The Fruit – Fruit of The Kings

We return you now to the Summer of Sweetness... ...which was in the year 1496. Christopher Columbus, returning from his second voyage to the west,...

DICK BAYNTON: The Modern Florence Nightingale

The original Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy on May 20th, 1820 of British parents and died on August 13, 1910 in Mayfair,...

Dick Baynton: Uniting States

The title of today’s column refers to several efforts to unite a consortium of nations in our troubled world. The United States of America...