By Carrie Jacobson
I am starting to make my way here in Wachapreague, VA.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle: “I’ve always believed that even when there is only one bluefin tuna left in the sea someone will pay a million dollars to be able to eat it.”

By Bob Gaydos
Catholic nuns continue to assert themselves in the spirit of Vatican II, which is still alive in Warwick, if not in Rome.

By Emily Theroux
Mitt Romney’s V.P pick, Paul Ryan, is among the 535 elected Americans who recently merited a 10 percent approval rating. These contentious ‘leaders’ are held in lower esteem than Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, and the TSA.

By Emily Theroux
I agree that Sikhs are being treated as second-class victims — not because the mainstream media are racist, but because I truly believe they peg their coverage primarily to readership and ratings. Did TV viewers really want Olympic gymnastics superseded by wall-to-wall cable broadcasting devoted to members of an obscure religion that most Americans — including, very likely, their killer — confused with Muslims?

By Bob Gaydos
Some fact-checking web sites have suggested Harry Reid is lying when he says Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years because Reid offers no proof. But only Reid and Romney know if Reid is lying. The proof is in the tax returns.

By Michael Kaufman
The example of vitamin E highlights some of the difficulties we all face in seeking to make informed choices about our own health.

Morning on the salt marsh – quiet, lovely, worth all the work.

By Bob Gaydos
In a looming showdown between American nuns and the Vatican, who will blink? History says the bishops will not. Will the nuns make history?

By Gretchen Gibbs
It’s hard to know what the factors are that contribute to our culture of mass violence.