But Keep the Cat Indoors
According to a new report, the Earth has lost half its vertebrate species --- mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians --- since 1970. The latest Living Planet Report, put out…
Inspection- Forgotten Folks We Thought We Knew
This column was inspired, in part, by Mart Allen's 2013 book: Adirondack Character and his portrait of Frank and Jessie Ritz. I never met Frank Ritz, but I lived…
Ye Olde Scribe Presents: WHY Would You Call it THAT?
Scribe ponders: hurricanes. Why do we call them names like "Rachel?" Ms. Scribe knew a Rachel once: ugly, yes, but a fine person: more beautiful inside than 99.9% of the…
Factory Farming is the Overlooked Enemy
By Wayne Pacelle guest columnist for the Star-Ledger World leaders gathered Tuesday in New York to identify global climate change solutions, as part of Climate Week. But will these luminaries…
Inspection- “Everyone I Know is Going Away”
by Ken Carman Isn't it odd how some of what parents, friends and former lovers say to us slips away: becomes almost invisible, silent... yet some seeps deep into our…