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A 49th Anniversary

  • Posted on:March 19, 2021
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As anniversaries go, it’s the one next year that usually prompts the celebration. But why wait? On March 19, 1972, a Sunday afternoon, I walked into the old News Journal building on Orange Street in Wilmington for my first day of work. In an odd way, I took the place by surprise. The editor running…

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50 years ago

  • Posted on:August 29, 2018
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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…

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Making Your Choice

  • Posted on:January 13, 2018
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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…

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7 banned words: a stirring rebuttal

  • Posted on:December 17, 2017
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 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…

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Memories of the Turbulent ’60s

  • Posted on:July 26, 2017
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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….

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Heeding my first editor’s advice

  • Posted on:June 1, 2017
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      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…

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Making your voice heard — and mine too

  • Posted on:March 17, 2017
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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…

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The Wonder of Facebook

  • Posted on:September 10, 2016
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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…

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You never know what’s next

  • Posted on:April 9, 2016
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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…

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Dead End for “Crossroads”

  • Posted on:February 21, 2016
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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…

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