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ROBERT L. MARONIC: The CBS Evening News Made Me Cry A River Of Tears

I was watching the CBS Evening News, co-hosted by John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois on April 17, about a food-insecure family in bucolic Wallingford, Connecticut, which is fourteen miles north of...

DAWN CUSTALOW: American Travelers – A Cautionary Tale

My cultural underpinnings were first rooted in my Indian reservation in Virginia, yet my world...

FRED FIRST: Fragments: Late April

EARTH DAY I neglected to devote any words to the event this year for the first...

BOB BROWN: Midnight of the Soul

There is a time when our situation seems too much to bear. It may be...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump Is Wrong To Defund The Voice of America

One of my earliest childhood memories was listening to the BBC during the evening on...

The Not-So-Super Bowl

How many times do we have to learn the lesson that the over-hyped event rarely lives up to the anticipation it generates? That’s not...

Foraging for a Worthy Legacy

There have been no sweeping predictions of the oceans beginning to recede or the planet starting to heal that were boasted in 2008. The...

Walls Holding Up Sunday Hunting Laws May Come Tumbling Down

Hunters are besieging Richmond. It’s the annual assault to batter down the castle gates and have the ban on Sunday hunting lifted. Year after...

You Should See What is Just Over the Mountains

I guess even today the substantial mountain ridges to the west of us inhibit travel in that direction. You know, we just don't seem...

Winners and Losers

No, this is not a piece about the Super Bowl or all the antics surrounding it.  It’s not even about ACC basketball and the...

Big Government: The Intransigence of Tyranny

Commentators, columnists, newscasters, syndicated columnists and political experts (that’s an oxymoron) all seem to have guessed the content of the annual ‘State of The...