Soon after I logged onto my computer this morning, thoughts of two people I didn’t know in 1968 took me back to where I was 50 years ago this week. George Wolkind, a onetime antiwar activist and one of my newer Facebook friends, posted a recollection of his experiences on the streets of Chicago during the…

For the January edition of Delaware Today magazine,  I wrote a package of three articles detailing the ins and outs of public school choice in Delaware. I followed that up with an interview in the last segment of First, the WHYY-TV news show, on Jan. 5. As thorough as I tried to make the articles, WHYY interviewer…

 Back in my newspaper editing days, I had the responsibility of supervising a series of young reporters who were just getting started in the business. Many have gone on to have highly successful careers. Much as I like to think I played some role in their development, it’s pretty clear that their success was much…

In everyone’s life, there are those historic touchstones, those moments you’ll never forget, and you’ll never forget where you were when they occurred. And, if you lived through the 1960s, when time seldom had a chance to stand still, those moments piled atop one another, each occurrence more stunning than the one that came before….

      I’m not big on writing about myself but sometimes you’ve got to be your own press agent. The picture tells the story, but I’ll add one of my own. Forty-five years ago, when I started my journalism career, Fred Hartmann, the metropolitan editor of the Wilmington News Journal, gave me the same advice…

I’ve kept quiet for too long, but I can’t keep quiet any longer. What I’m hearing and reading about President Trump’s budget proposals is forcing me to speak out. Let me say first that I believe our country needs a strong military. But I’m pretty certain that right now the US has the strongest military…

Ahhh, the wonder of Facebook. You start a thread and you never know where it will lead. On Friday I posted this photo, taken for me by a fellow volunteer at the Brandywine Festival of the Arts. after former News Journal colleague Bill Tudor had helped me hang this posterized print, and about a half…

I had an interesting conversation with a teenager the other day. She’s still in the first half of her high school career, but she is already interested in exploring a career as a writer. After watching how newspapers have severely cut their reporting and editing staffs over the past decade or so, it was tempting to…

Once upon a time, when Delaware residents wanted news that was really close to home, what was going on in their own neighborhoods, they knew that once a week they could turn to the Crossroads section in The News Journal. Not anymore. Crossroads dead-ended a week ago, the announcement made through a headline on its…

I had the opportunity recently to write in Delaware Today magazine about two troubled schools that have, under dynamic new leaders, managed to turn themselves around. Booker T. Washington Elementary in Dover, under Principal Dale Brown, and East Side Charter in Wilmington, under Executive Director Lamont Browne, have achieved success for several reasons. At both schools, the…