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As parts of Florida and South Carolina continue their recovery efforts following the destructive path of Hurricane Ian, a debate rages about the effects that bigger and more frequent storms will have on everyday life. No, I am not talking about the debate regarding whether warmer temperatures brought about by climate change means more powerful…
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On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered his Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort to land an American on the moon by the end of the decade. In the years that followed, Kennedy’s address became known as the “We choose to go to the Moon” speech. Sadly, President Kennedy did…
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Yesterday another mass shooting occurred at an elementary school in America. If the above sentence sounds devoid of emotion, it could be because at this point what more emotion is there to give at the constant and senseless acts of mass violence committed by individuals and their guns targeted at innocent people just trying to…
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Last year, on Friday, August 13, 2021 I wrote my semi annual column about Friday the 13th. The column featured a pandemic twist with the thought that by the time the next Friday the 13th rolled around the pandemic would be over and the only thing to fear on Friday the 13th would be bad…
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The way goods and services reached consumers changed a lot during the last two plus years thanks in part to necessity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as changes in consumer buying patterns. My journey in this new found territory of near instant delivery gratification has evolved from the previous accepted norm of…
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Editor’s Note: As part of our occasional Way Back Wednesday feature, today we travel back to a column written long, long ago, in a Gigaplex far, far away on May 3, 2014. In this column, we covered the unofficial holiday of Star Wars Day in the pre-Disney+ era of Baby Yoda. As you await the…
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Former Washington Post publisher Phil Graham said newspapers provide “the first rough draft of history.” When major events occur, journalists are among the first on the scene providing eyewitness accounts. The 2022 war in Ukraine provides a haunting example of the benefit journalists provide by reporting facts as history unfolds. Through written stories, photos, audio…
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Recently, two teams I have a lengthy history of supporting decided to change their names. That fact alone is not that surprising. In recent years, teams changing their names has been a rather common occurrence with the reasoning behind the name changes running the gambit from bowing to pressure from outside forces, to wanting to…
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Ah, the bumper sticker. That adhesive little piece of vinyl that provides endless opportunities to customize one’s ride. By most accounts, bumper stickers have been around almost as long as there have been bumpers. Some bumper stickers are meant to make us laugh. Some bumper stickers are meant to inform people about a cause near…
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Recently, I decided that I needed to create an online portfolio to feature some highlights of my journalistic career. Okay, so I actually decided years ago that I should upgrade my file system from retaining photocopies of articles I’d written in three-ring binders, to displaying them in an online portfolio, but recently I made the…
J. Ryan Anderson
A Journalist telling stories one column at a time
