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  Martin Collins didn’t expect to die. He was seventy-five. He was healthy and active. He still played golf once a week. He was on his knees weeding the flower bed in the back of his house with his wife of 50 years, Holly. The sun was shining. It was a warm spring day with

Harry felt like he was surrounded by old women. His daughters forced him to give up his house and move into an independent living community where there were very few men. The one-bedroom apartment felt small. Of course, when he couldn’t live by himself anymore, he could move into assisted living, and finally into the

The last week has been a time of looking back at the year that just passed. To many it wasn’t a pretty picture. We must now confront the year ahead. In its first week, we will face the one year anniversary of one of the darkest days in our history. It has been seared in

  Joe Bruno and his wife Maria were just moving into the quiet neighborhood in Santa Fe. A few days earlier, Matt Dawkins their next-door neighbor, noticed a couple of workers renovating and expanding a backyard shed. Matt thought Joe and his wife looked to be in their seventies and probably moved to New Mexico

The recent school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan has once again shown how terrifyingly normal this madness has become. A troubled kid with access to a gun goes on a rampage. Four students are killed. Eight others, including a teacher, are wounded. Like almost every school in America, there had been “active shooter”

Harvey Clark, one of the great reporters in Philadelphia television history, died last week from liver cancer. He was seventy-six. Harvey will forever be known for his coverage of the MOVE disaster in 1985 when the city bombed a residential neighborhood and killed six adults and five children who police were trying to evict. MOVE

If you want to see our real place in the world, it may make you feel insignificant. It’s all around us, but never more than in our American treasure, our national parks. We recently got back from spending a few days visiting Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. The majesty of nature is overwhelming. It’s

We all remember where we were on 9/11. We didn’t know where we were going. What would happen next? How it would change us forever. In these days leading up to the twentieth anniversary, we are seeing all those indelible images again and hearing the stories of heroism, grief, determination, and anger. Some have compared

One of the primary responsibilities of journalists is to ask questions to get information to inform the public on a particular subject. This applies whether you’re asking the local school president about the school budget or elected officials about government policy including national security. The American military evacuation of Afghanistan has raised many obvious questions

The debate over the Covid 19 vaccines as been going on since the vaccines became available earlier this year. It has ramped up since the virus mutated into the Delta variant which is much more contagious and can even be caught and spread by vaccinated people. The rare vaccinated person who tests positive does not