VOX POPULI • BY WILLIAM SIMS Last spring when Paramount Pictures and Clint Eastwood prepared shooting in the DC area for a major motion picture about the life

VOX POPULI • BY ED LEVY Back in the late 60s and most of the 70s, I hitchhiked all across the U.S. and Canada and across much of

VOX POPULI • BY ED LEVY The Blair High School Cafeteria was jumping on October 27 for the one-year-out area kick-off of President Obama’s re-election campaign. I once

WORLDVIEW — It was 100 degrees in the early afternoon when I arrived at the Robert Johnson Museum in tiny Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Johnson is thought by

by Conny Mayer As with all families who have lost a loved one this year, our family now confronts the holiday season without what, in our case, had been

COMMUNITY • BY CHEER The gap between the haves and have-nots in Takoma Park widened significantly during the last decade, according to U.S. Census data. Community Health and Empowerment

VOX POPULI • BY ANNE SIMPSON SUPLEE Several years ago, inspired by beloved Takoma Park activist Dean Hoge, Anne Simpson Suplee wrote a fight song for Takoma to

COMMUNITY VOICE BY ED LEVY — The annual Rachel Carson Meadow Festival in Silver Spring’s North Four Corners Park (N4CP) is a great example of how a community

COMMUNITY VOICE: CHERE WILLIAMS When I received the unfortunate news that Borders Bookstore would close its doors, I tried to ignore it. They may be closing other stores, but