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How the Greatest Generation Can Save Our Current Generation

How the Greatest Generation Can Save Our Current Generation

Community
By Bruce Meyer As we have just passed the 5th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred in Virginia Beach on Friday, May 31st, 2019 and more recently at the Chesapeake WalMart and the Uvalde Elementary school in Texas, people all over the Country asked once again when these mass shootings will stop. There are two primary strategies that have been discussed for several years. The first strategy discussed by Democrats and the media is gun control. The second strategy discussed by Republicans is arming schools and citizens and eliminating stringent gun control laws. We can debate for years (and we have) the advantages and disadvantages of each proposed strategy; however, at the end of the day, they are not solutions to the problem. They are, in fact, just a band aid. The infection is sti...
HRW Book Club

HRW Book Club

Art & Culture
"New biography captures the life and remarkable football coaching career of the incredible George Allen" By Mike Richman Author, GEORGE ALLEN: A FOOTBALL LIFE Someone needed to write the definitive biography of George Allen, one of the greatest coaches in NFL history and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I knew it was incumbent upon me to do just that. As the author of The Redskins Encyclopedia, the Washington Redskins Football Vault and Joe Gibbs: An Enduring Legacy, and someone who grew up in the D.C. area with the George Allen-coached Redskins in the 1970s, I became hungry to add one more accomplishment to my literary career. I thus authored George Allen: A Football Life. George Allen deserved for someone to uphold his legacy. He’s the third-winningest coach ...
FORE!!! HACKERS BAR & GRILL 

FORE!!! HACKERS BAR & GRILL 

Entertainment
A novel and new concept combining golf, food and fun located in the Hilltop area of Virginia Beach.  By Bruce Meyer  There's a new golf-themed restaurant in town, Hackers at Hilltop! This concept is the creation of Edward Ore, the owner of Great Neck Doggie Daycare (where Dr. Keppie Meyer’s office is located). This is not your ordinary golf-themed restaurant. This restaurant is huge and contains seven Golf Bays and one very large VIP Golf Room. These Bays feature state-of-the-art massive golf simulators. You can select from one of their 85 golf courses around the world, driving range mode or miniature golf mode. Of course, you can enjoy Hackers’ delicious gourmet meals in your Bay. The Bays can double for watching professional sports, such as football and basketball.  Sp...
Focus On Philanthropy

Focus On Philanthropy

Focus on Philanthropy
The Dozoretz Hospice House of Hampton Roads Set to Open In Spring:  A New Beginning for End-of-Life Care Dr. Ronald Dozoretz and his daughters, Renee and Shari Along with a lack of adequate hospice patient beds in South Hampton Roads, the region lacks hospice education and family bereavement support. The Dozoretz HHHR provides these services to all members of the community. This eventually will include those under-insured and underserved. To make this lofty vision a reality, the nonprofit is continuing its capital campaign and hosts two major community fundraisers – a regatta and pickleball tournament.  The Hampton Yacht Club hosted the Third Annual Hospice One Design Regatta on Saturday, May 18. Joining them this year was the Broad Bay Sailing Association. We are...
Meet Your Representatives

Meet Your Representatives

Politics
✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ANNE FERRELL TATA  MEMBER OF VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY  ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴  Here are some of the things I am planning to put forward in the House of Delegates in the upcoming session:  ✴ An adoption tax credit – a bill to support adoptions and help women who make the choice to adopt a child.  ✴ Mandatory certification of aftercare facilities for victims of human trafficking.  ✴ Limiting the bureaucracy on childcare facilities already licensed by the Department of Defense. Military families need quality childcare options and not red tape from the state government.  ...
Live Like Freddie…

Live Like Freddie…

Business, Community
Positive poignant lessons learned from a beloved businessman  as told by his daughter.  The Brown Paper Bag  By Connie Aron Meyer  Each year, this very week in time on the calendar, my mind travels back to another decade with my dad, Freddie Aron, at Rogers Men’s Clothing store in Portsmouth, Virginia  –and the all important lessons in business and in life that I learned there.  It is after a hectic, but wonderful Christmas season, and is time now to clear away last year’s merchandise to make room as new fresh spring items flood in our back door.  I am standing behind the large, U-shaped, mahogony counter that houses the cash register, gift wrapping area, and the shelves filled with paper bags. There were two kinds of bags stored ther...
We Must Come Together to Stop the Hate

We Must Come Together to Stop the Hate

Headlines
By Connie Aron MeyerIf you are an intelligent caring Americanthen you abhor the barbaric attack onIsraeli families asleep in their beds onOctober 7th, 2023, and feel for the plight ofthe Palestinian people you see abandonedby their elected government, the terroristorganization called Hamas, who purposelyuses them as human shields. And youwonder how we stop the violence and cometogether to find common ground for the goodof humanity, stop the hate and find peace.If you care about the Palestinian people,then you begin to realize that their greatestenemy lives among them – in the body ofHamas, a United States-designated, terroristorganization and their brothers to the north,Hezbollah.But we are constantly bombarded byconflicting reports in the media and find italmost impossible to judge - whic...
The Decline of Civil Discourse

The Decline of Civil Discourse

Headlines, Politics
How Targeted Media and Technology are Shaping Our Conversations in The Chaos of Our Ever-Fragmenting World, Illustrated by the Israel Conflict Civil discourse, the cornerstone of democratic societies, has been on a concerning decline in recent years. Amid this backdrop of escalating tensions and diminished dialogue, one cannot help but dissect the forces driving our global community away from mutual understanding and towards division. Chief among these drivers is the media's tidal shift from universally appealing platforms to niche and demographically targeted content. Coupled with the subtle yet profound influence of AI algorithms, echo chambers emerge, amplifying polarization. This is starkly evident in the portrayal of events as complex as the current Israel-Hamas conflict, where...
Humanities

Humanities

Art & Culture
Chrysler Museum just wrapped up an outstanding exhibit on traveling  Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm. Article Courtesy of Chrysler.org Captured by Paul McCartney using his own Pentax Camera, Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm features more than 250 photographs taken between November 1963 and February 1964, illuminating the period in which The Beatles became international superstars. The photographs were rediscovered in McCartney’s personal archive in 2020. “Looking at these photos now, decades after they were taken, I find there’s a sort of innocence about them,” said Paul McCartney. “Everything was new to us at this point. But I like to think I wouldn’t take them any differently today. They now bring back so many stories, a flood o...
How the Greatest Generation Can Save Our Current Generation

How the Greatest Generation Can Save Our Current Generation

Politics, Uncategorized
By Bruce Meyer After the terrible tragedies and prevalence of violence we have all witnessed recently, people all over the country are once again asking when this madness will stop.  There are two primary strategies that have been discussed for several years.  The first strategy discussed by Democrats and the media is gun control.  The second strategy discussed by Republicans is arming schools and citizens and eliminating stringent gun control laws.  We can debate for years (and we have) the advantages and disadvantages of each proposed strategy; however, at the end of the day, they are not solutions to the problem.  They are, in fact, just a band aid.  The infection is still raging and both strategies are not the “antibiotic” that will cure this dis...