My husband and I attended Monday night’s town council meeting in Brunswick. It was well attended, despite not being well publicized. We arrived at 6:30 p.m. to a packed room and saw many familiar faces that represent many facets of our community. This is one of the things we love about Brunswick. Near the beginning of […]

THE CONVERSATION — A few years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night looking for predators on the prowl: lions, leopards, hyenas. As we drove through the darkness, though, our spotlight occasionally lit up a smaller hunter – a slender, […]

Guess what? If you see a smutty, sexist, obscene, vulgar, or racist bumper sticker attached to someone’s vehicle and you dislike the words thereon, there’s not one thing you can do about it. Nothing. And that’s the truth, folks. Want to know why?  I’ll tell you. Messages on bumper stickers are protected by the Constitution. Whatever […]

There are probably many Americans who thought this day would never come. More than a few people, myself included, were skeptical that Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice possessed the strength and courage to overcome their traditional habit of risk aversion. Instead, the criminal justice system is going to do battle against one of the […]