Category Archives: In the News

Looking for a Balance of Trade

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Among this week’s chronicles revealing that the proliferation of violence in our world has certainly not abated, there was the disturbing report of a terrorist attack in Canada’s parliament. Many of us were shocked—though more an obligatory response to a … Continue reading →

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All the Threats Aren’t Microscopic

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

A young nurse named Nina Pham is now famous, but not in any of the ways she might have preferred to be. As most of us know, she contracted the Ebola virus in the course of her work in treating … Continue reading →

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“Harvested Madness”

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Sometimes we find ourselves surrounded by a backwash of information regarding events that take over all the headlines and envelope every form of social media. I usually try to avoid those subjects. I don’t normally like writing about what everybody … Continue reading →

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Raising Yellow Jackets

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

A recent news article reported a tragic story of a 12-year-old girl who was stabbed 19 times by two classmates, also 12-year-old girls, and who amazingly survived.  Apparently, the incident was the end result of a murder plot hatched by … Continue reading →

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Hijacking the Dictionary

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

The sidewalk in front of the Federal Courts Building in downtown Richmond on Tuesday morning was much more crowded than it usually is, but less crowded than it should have been. In the early moments of the Family Foundation’s Stand … Continue reading →

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Are We Banning the Wrong Things?

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Richmond was stunned last week with the story of an eight year old boy who was killed while trying to defend his twelve year old sister from an attack by an alleged rapist.  The news quickly became international in scope, … Continue reading →

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