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Dave Howard: Learning The Hard Way

Inventive, determined, inspiring.Local childrenĢƵ book author Dave Howard could be considered all of these and more. Born on an unusually hot spring day in 1974, Howard came into the world and before long he was struggling to see what the world had to offer. He was prescribed glasses at age ...

Coming home

The U.S. soldiers, sailors and aircrews and the vast uniformed logistics apparatus that supported them in the harsh, grueling and often desperately boring slog to victory in World War II did not think of themselves as a problem.The veterans later recalled thinking of the war as a simple ...

Out of Iraq

The effective end of the Iraq war, coming up on its ninth year, was recently defined. “U.S. troops will be home for the holidays,” promised President Barack Obama. And as a practical matter, the U.S. war machine is already past the point of no return. We are down from 505 bases to 18. The ...

Men need help with cancer awareness too

I don’t think we should be raising awareness for the fight against breast cancer.I don’t believe that, but no matter what I do, some people are going to think that is the point of this column. (As such, I really should know better than to write this.) So, just to stress again, thatĢƵ not ...

Extra cheesy

Republican frontrunners in the presidential race seem to have half-lives rivaling those of the more esoteric elements at the far end of the Periodic Table. Remember, the year began with Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney atop the polls. Huckabee and Palin are gone, only their ...

The History of Halloween

<strong>Halloween of the Past</strong>As an end-of-October born child, I always loved the anticipation of summer ending and fall arriving. As I grew old enough to have birthday parties that I would remember, my parents had an annual Halloween Bash. All the kids in my ...