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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...

Is This What You Voted For?

Speaking in Roanoke on July 13, 2012, suppose President Obama had said, ‘The government doesn’t build things by itself, it gets help from...

God Is At Work!

 This fall, when the school year begins, three members of Raleigh court Presbyterian Church will be enrolled in theological seminaries and another will...

Alas, The Things We Live With

As July rolls into August, you might suspect your friendly columnist is just too lazy to come up with new stuff. But I...

From Desolation to Determination: Detroit Seeks To Rise

Three years ago, John Hantz, a financial-services entrepreneur proposed converting 10,000 acres of vacant land in Detroit to a for-profit urban farm. This...

Summer at Boss’s Cabin

     My cousins and I would fashion fishing equipment with safety pins tied to cotton string on a stick, and we used squished-up...

Spyros From Liverpool Carries The Torch

You don't hear THIS in the news every day: "Spyros from Liverpool." Here's where the story starts: a boy named Spyridon Gianniotis was born...