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MELINDA MYERS: Be A Weather Watching Gardener
Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weather patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes, and...
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...
DAWN CUSTALOW: “It’s Not Complicated – Just Love The One In Front of You . . .”
As a nation, we have been in shock and disbelief as we grieve the recent...
SCOTT DREYER: 2024 In Review, “The Year The Fever Broke” (Part 2)
Part 1, for January-July, is here.AUGUSTDemocrats had their convention in Chicago. They took the grotesque,...
Is Honesty Your Policy?
by Stephanie KoehlerI have been thinking a lot about truth and honesty lately. It seems to be a topic that permeates the public landscape...
Looking for Tolerant and Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion by Quigg Lawrence
There is nothing worse than a dogmatic zealot who cannot have a discussion with someone who holds an opposite view without resulting to...
Six-legged Plagues Afflict Farm and Forest
by Fred FirstThe color purple is not so common in nature, and so it immediately grabs our attention when we round a bend on...
Recipe of the Week: Slumber Party Pretzels
by Leigh SackettTen might be a magical number. I say this because my daughter will turn ten on June 2nd and working towards...
A Thousand Resurrections by Gary Robbins
On Friday, May 5, my father was on an operating table in Richmond.
Two months earlier, on March 11, he had suffered a heart...
Of Power and Passion
by Hayden HollingsworthOnce again, we are flooded with more information than we need to have about the private lives of the rich and...