My son Ben and his fiancée Lindsey are planning a wedding in a reclaimed Catskills barn in Woodstock, shot through with light from a galaxy of knotholes. The celebration in […]
Author: The Dominion Post
Trump’s right: Citizenship a big deal
In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year’s census form, President Donald Trump on Thursday gave credence to the claims of critics […]
Trump has a pet currency; it’s not bitcoin
When Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, praised Bitcoin last year as “disruptive populism” and revealed he was working on his own cryptocurrency, it was evidence of something many people […]
More than mere exercise in nostalgia: Apollo 11 at 50
You had to be there 50 years ago, and I was. As a young reporter for a local TV station in Houston, I frequently visited NASA (“the space base,” we […]
Her skills not tied to ‘male traits’
BY RON BOONE The Baltimore Sun The inspiring victory of our Women’s World Cup soccer team took me back to my days coaching girls’ 13-16 softball in the late 1970s. […]
‘Flash-floodier future’ cannot just be turned off
It may turn out yet our West Virginia hills are good for something besides admiring. For those living atop them or on their slopes that may still prove to be […]
Something for everyone on milestone
I feared that the upcoming 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing might get eclipsed by other celebrations, but apparently the sky is the limit for Apollo 11 remembrances. […]
Difference between open mind and empty one
A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. […]
July 15 letters to the editor
Emergency need for blood donors now Summer can be a busy time full of fun activities and vacations, but the need for lifesaving blood transfusions never stops. In fact, every […]
Court rules (unpersuasively) Trump can’t block Twitter critics
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Trump violated the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from access to his Twitter feed. The decision by the U.S. 2nd […]
