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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...
Vegetables – Gone To The Dogs
by Mary Jo Shannon
Last week my husband Harry and I enjoyed a surprise visit with my brother Frank and his wife Delores who...
Dragonfly Pest Control: A Free Global Service
by Fred First
Even after being a biology watcher for decades, I learned something very interesting a few years ago when I chanced upon...
Music Takes Us Back and Moves Us Forward
by Joe Kennedy
When the earth moved last Tuesday afternoon, I did what Americans do -- I tried to decide whom to blame. I've...
In Pursuit of Manners
by Keith McCurdy
What is the biggest problem with kids today? When I ask that question to a group of parents, I get many...
Tough Times
by Hayden Hollingsworth
As Woody Allen famously said, “The bad thing about dying is that you don’t get to practice.” True, but one can...
Treason Against The Planet
by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D.
As a scientist, I am baffled by two “head in the sand” negative attitudes manifested these days by a...