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FRED FIRST: No Peace With The Winds of Winter
This post revisits a post from 2011 (and originally from maybe 2004) where the wind was the dominant feature of our winter days. This, I might add, was a complaint...
SERWAN ZANGANA: Is There Any Hope For Roanoke City Council?
Roanoke City Council members returned to their old political game in the Municipal building. Perhaps,...
SCOT BELLAVIA: Told Ya So
“I hate to be the one to tell you ‘I told you so,’ but...”“No, you...
MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more...
BOB BROWN: Suspension of Critical Judgment
The Sheriff of a nearby county, before DNA identification was available, urgently requested the assistance...
Recipe of the Week: No More Square Break Apart Cookies
by Leigh Sackett
My daughter had a lemonade stand two weeks ago to raise money for the Angels of Assisi Animal Shelter. It will...
When the Music Stops
by Hayden Hollingsworth
Working as a volunteer at WVTF for many years, long ago I put a face with the voice of Seth Williamson....
Greening the Supply Chain
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.
Recently, a colleague from México City sent me a link to an insightful article published on-line by the Ethical...
Remembering My Mother-In-Law
by Mary Jo Shannon
When Harry and I married, I became the daughter Helen and Harry Shannon, Sr. did not have. We had become...
The Board of Directors Thought He Was Nuts
by Mike Keeler
And you have to admit, the idea behind Steve Jobs' television spot was rather, um, different. It was a story about...
The Good Society By Barkley Thompson
“Only someone who submits to the authority of the universal order and of creation, who values the right to be a part of...