by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Lightning Update
John Griffin & Warren Brown 2022 is likely to be an unpredictable year during the General Assembly Sessions in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia for similar and distinct reasons. This is an election year in PA and MD. The Governors of both of these states are...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Lightning Update
Warren Brown Crossing the Road Imagine motoring down the road and being confronted by a very large animal with formidable antlers. This might seem like the opening scene for a story about nature’s revenge for all the little creatures that have been flattened by...
by admin | Oct 19, 2021 | Lightning Update
At Beach Week 2021, Beach #20, Gloucester Point Beach Park on the York River, Gloucester Point, Virginia, I met Louis, another avid fisherman. It was his first time at the park. This landscape, once known as Tsenacomoco, was home to some of the tribes in the...
by admin | May 4, 2021 | Lightning Update
Written by Jonathan L. Doherty After writing weekly Lightning Updates for almost three years, I’m about to enter a new post-full-time-job phase of life. Perhaps you will pardon my using this and next week’s updates for some personal observations. Here’s part I. I’ve...
by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Lightning Update
On Earth Day 2021, we offer these words from the poet Julie Cadwallader-Staub. Praying In the garden early, I’mtransplanting echinacea while robins and flycatchers confirm that our winter–complicated and compoundedby COVID–has succumbed to spring at...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Lightning Update
How many birds are killed by vehicles along a single stretch of rural highway? (Photos: above — Janet Griffin/Shutterstock; below — Jay Falstad) From time to time, these updates share information that may not be the best of news, but does shed light on the...