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BOB BROWN: The Recent Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge, Part One

The 2025 election results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Seattle are troubling to me, a student of the human mind. The election of “democratic socialists,” and the...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men,...

FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

Though a few poetic souls and tree-hugging types like me will make soft cooing noises...

BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

The round, sad Asian American face of the 26-year-old single Soldier sitting uncomfortably in front...

SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

Talking to strangers about God is a muscle I don’t work very often. But I...

A Few Thoughts at 63 and Counting

by Lucky Garvin Flying across the highway in front of me was a crow; and in its beak, a long piece of limp brown...

Cornish Hens with Cornbread Stuffing

by Leigh Sackett I love giving a Christmas dinner recipe to all of you. The problem I always find is that I make the same...

Extra, Extra! Christmas Stolen – Grinch Exonerated!

by Fred First Granted, his methods were nefarious the year he stole Christmas. But his tiny heart secretly was—and is—in the right place. He...

The Family Seamstress

by John Robinson I grew up in Roanoke in the 1960’s, in what was normal at the time; that is with a dad who worked...

The Preposterous Gospel By Tupper Garden

Comfort, O comfort my people … Get you up to a high mountain … lift your voice with strength … lift it up,...

Out of the Darkness Came a Pretty Bright Idea

byMike Keeler Hamburg is one tough town. Since it was established by Charlemagne in 808 as the northern outpost of the Holy Roman Empire,...