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Aside from being the month of my birth, March is also Women’s History Month. Established in 1987, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Few can argue that women have played a pivotal role in societies across the globe for centuries. It would be impossible to list…
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Through the years, I have collected everything from Matchbox Cars and comics, to ticket stubs and books from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. It has often been said that my collections have collections. One of the earliest things that I collected was baseball cards. I started collecting baseball cards in elementary school back…
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The other day I read a story about a reporter being fired for calling Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson “bruh” on Twitter. The reasoning behind the firing as cited by the Dallas Morning News, was a violation of the paper’s social media policy. Many news organizations have social media policies in place as a means to…
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When an Orlando television reporter was killed, and his cameraman wounded while covering a story about a shooting last month, they became the latest victims in what has become an increasingly violent time for journalists. Despite the First Amendment of the United States Constitution specifically citing a freedom of speech, and of the press, attacks…
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Editor’s Note: As I was working on my content schedule for the next few months ahead of the return of Major League Baseball, I came across a column that I wrote on November 7, 2022 but never posted. Through the years I have written several columns that for one reason or another were never posted.…
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The other day I was saddened to hear about the passing of former University of Central Florida (UCF) president John C. Hitt. President Hitt, who was 82-years-old when he died, became UCF’s fourth president in 1992 and retired from the post in June 2018. He was a transformational figure at UCF. Over the course of…
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Earlier this week a 43-year-old man killed three people and injured five others on the campus of Michigan State University. The shooting, which occurred on the eve of fifth anniversary of the Parkland school shooting, marked yet another example of what appears to be a uniquely American problem related to the use of guns to…
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Leading up to this year’s Super Bowl match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs a lot of attention has been placed on the match-up between quarterbacks Jalen Hurts of the Eagles, and Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs. Barring a late scratch by one of the quarterbacks due to injury, this will mark…
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President Joe Biden has delivered three State of the Union (SOTU) addresses during his presidency. The most recent address took place on February 7, 2023. Unlike the previous two addresses where the Democratic party controlled both chambers of Congress, Biden’s most recent address took place before a Democratically controlled Senate, and a Republican led House…
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Earlier this month, the fine folks at McDonald’s rolled out a Happy Meal aimed at adults called the Cactus Plant Flea Market Box in honor of the company that they partnered with to bring the vision to life. In full disclosure, during my adult life I have ordered many Happy Meals. I could lie and…
J. Ryan Anderson
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