by Stephen Tillett | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
A Plea To My Cousins! The world is facing its first global pandemic in over a century. Very few people today were alive during the last pandemic, the Influenza pandemic of 1918. It took over 50 million lives, worldwide (for context, approximately 500 million people,...
by Stephen Tillett | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog
A few months ago, Editor Rick Hutzell asked me if I would consider writing a piece related to guns and the domestic terror attack that took the lives of five Capital Gazette employees. At the time, I wasn’t sure what my “hook” would be to discuss that tragedy in any...
by Stephen Tillett | Oct 5, 2018 | Blog
No Matter What? I am compelled to express my disgust at the determination of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the White House to ramrod through a Supreme Court (SCOTUS) nomination no matter what. While Brett Kavanaugh might meet some of the standards for a Justice,...
by Stephen Tillett | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
Seeking Our Better Angels I think all decent people are heartbroken about the senseless murders of Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiassen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters. As someone who served on the Community Editorial Board for six months in 2014, I have a...
by Stephen Tillett | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
by Stephen Tillett | Jan 30, 2018 | Blog
Why I’m Blacking Out Super Bowl LII: #NFLBlack0ut Till The End! In the fall of 1971, when I was in the seventh grade, a wave of excitement arose in the Washington DC metro area because of the new head coach and winning ways of the Washington football team. Coach...
by Stephen Tillett | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog
The not guilty verdict in the case involving the murder of Minnesota motorist Philando Castile, in front of his family, is an outrage on several different levels. First, Castile’s personal history reveals that he had been stopped 49 times by the police over the...
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