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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...
First Year of Medical School: Successfully Completed
by Hayden Hollingsworth
The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine will start its second class this week. Out of more the 2700 applicants, around...
Economics As If People And Planet Mattered
by Fred First
Is it just me, or does most everyone you talk to these days think that most everything in politics, economics, society...
Growing Old[Er]
by Lucky Garvin
It was a sun-charged day; the air was spiced with scents of spring. I saw them as I sped by in...
Rumbling, Bumbling, Stumbling . . . New Job!
by Jon Kaufman
Friends, when last we spoke I was mired in state of unemployment, a predicament shared by a growing number of Americans. ...
The Raindrop That Falls To The Earth – By The Reverend Barkley Thompson
Episcopal seminarians are required to complete a summer of hospital chaplaincy. It is on-the-job training of the most intense kind, and the lessons...
There’s No Place Like Home!
by Mary Jo Shannon
When I taught three and four-year-olds, one of their favorite stories was about a mouse family who lived in a...