Yesterday's New York Times reported the award of the Nobel Prize in physics for the Higgs Boson, that gives mass to particles in space,...

There is always a bit of an empty spot in public discourse when Tony Tharp's blog disappears, as it did a week or so ago. I don't ...

Who watches the watchers? Juvenal: Satires, Book VI

The Snowden affair calls to mind an earlier history of U.S. Intelligence efforts targeting communications. In the 1920's and 30's, t...

The New York Times reported yesterday that on Thursday the Chicago Sun-Times fired all of its photographic staff. Twenty-eight employees. T...

Dan Froomkin of Huffington Post interviews two of the most trusted neutral political observers, Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Ins...

I have mixed views about the proliferation of "fact checkers" as a specialty in many newspapers. I am of the view that reporters t...

Sad news last night on the network news. The Weekly Reader , source of national and world news for countless schoolchildren since its foundi...

I popped into Town and Country not long ago to buy some essential item and was delighted to run into one of our long-time residents, Tony Th...

I try to be reasonably clear where I stand on public issues, but to speak to the substance of policy outcomes instead of relying on ad-homin...

Cambridge MA, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 I understand from a recently published list of media that cover Pamlico County that mine is a "ram...

My last post called attention to W. Edwards Deming's observation that management is prediction. This is true of government as well. Idea...

This Friday, April 29, 2011, two momentous events taking place an ocean apart will probably dominate television. Early that morning east coa...

My high school fight song was sung to the tune of "On, Wisconsin!" That was probably appropriate, since many if not most of my tea...

Last week the Pamlico County Board of Elections joined other Boards at a training session in New Bern. We (the Pamlico Board) were handed a ...

Watching Eyes on the Prize last night on PBS brought back memories. A decade before the Selma march, I was a student at the University of Mi...

I'm always genuinely pleased when Tony Tharp, (Former) editor of Pamlico Today, makes a reappearance. Mr. Tharp isn't really masked...

Today's Pamlico News has a front page article reporting a case of alleged "cyber stalking" at Pamlico High School. It's ha...

No, this isn't a joke. Earlier this evening, I heard an insistent and unfamiliar knock. When I opened the door, I was met by a Sheriff...