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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, the pain from the hit which was the first Republican Council member since 2000,...
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...
SCOTT DREYER: A Trump Supporter Explains Her Reasonings
Below are comments from a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, for employment reasons, on...
Recipe of the Week: Earth Bound Rosemary Ranch Chicken Kabobs
by Leigh Sackett
I have never tired of seafood . . . Until Wed. July 27th. I was at the beach and my daughter and...
My Charger: Not Just Another Dodge
by Robert Adcox
The other day while going through old photographs, I came across a 1971 Dodge Charger I once owned. The car had...
Remind Me Again, in Whom Do We Trust? by Gary Robbins
Put your hand down into your pockets, your purse, or your wallet. Take out a penny, a nickel, a dime. And there, engraved...
Good News From The Healing World by Liza Field
by Liza Field
There’s good news from far afield, these days — or even close at hand. Researchers are finding that a “new” purple...
Enough Already – Least Interesting Act in the Circus Needs to Go
by Joe Kennedy
In the late 1970s or early 1980s I first heard of the concept of animal rights from a professor at Hollins...
Striving and Receiving – Scripture: Genesis 32:22-31 by Stuart Revercomb
In the chapters just ahead of the above referenced scripture we learn that things are about to get very interesting for Jacob who,...