South River Reflections

  • The #1 Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Pickleball Game, Immediately

    A common request I hear from students is wanting to learn how to “slow the game down.” These are players who have learned the basics of how to hit the ball, but when they get into game play, they find themselves frequently on the run, watching balls get past them and not feeling in control...

  • How Does the Senate Count?

      Our Constitution has left us with some unintended consequences. The worst of which may be allocating Senate seats to places where people don’t live in large numbers. The result is a wide disparity in representation, with the minority of people being represented as the majority.   by Blake Pembroke A couple weeks ago, Sen. Mitch...

  • What’s Up With the Electoral College?

    We revere the Founding Fathers for their wisdom in crafting the Constitution more than 200 years ago and for their gift of rights and liberties we continue to embrace and defend. But their same words and ideas gave us the electoral college system for selecting our president, so why are people eager to get rid of it now? ...

  • Clues to 2016 Election Results

    The 2016 presidential race offered many clues pointing to Donald Trump’s eventual election win over Hillary Clinton. The clues started in the primaries with the high Republican voter turnout, which, combined with later clues and the history of past presidential elections, provided enough evidence that the surprise finish should not have been a big surprise....

  • Remembering Bill Biggart on 9/11

    Remembering the horrible events of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center on its 15th anniversary. Among the 2,996 people killed that day was Bill Biggart who raced from his wife and four children to photograph the unfolding tragedy, forever now part of it, the only member of the news media killed that...

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  • A common request I hear from students is wanting to learn how to “slow the game down.” These are players who have learned the basics of how to hit the ball, but when they get into game play, they find themselves frequently on the run, watching balls get past them and not feeling in control...

  • How Does the Senate Count?

      Our Constitution has left us with some unintended consequences. The worst of which may be allocating Senate seats to places where people don’t live in large numbers. The result is a wide disparity in representation, with the minority of people being represented as the majority.   by Blake Pembroke A couple weeks ago, Sen. Mitch...

  • What’s Up With the Electoral College?

    We revere the Founding Fathers for their wisdom in crafting the Constitution more than 200 years ago and for their gift of rights and liberties we continue to embrace and defend. But their same words and ideas gave us the electoral college system for selecting our president, so why are people eager to get rid of it now? ...

  • Clues to 2016 Election Results

    The 2016 presidential race offered many clues pointing to Donald Trump’s eventual election win over Hillary Clinton. The clues started in the primaries with the high Republican voter turnout, which, combined with later clues and the history of past presidential elections, provided enough evidence that the surprise finish should not have been a big surprise....

  • Remembering Bill Biggart on 9/11

    Remembering the horrible events of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center on its 15th anniversary. Among the 2,996 people killed that day was Bill Biggart who raced from his wife and four children to photograph the unfolding tragedy, forever now part of it, the only member of the news media killed that...

  • Does the Olympic Medal Count Count?

    Every time the Olympics rolls around, we are presented with dutiful media updates on the ongoing tally of gold, silver and bronze medals won by the competing countries, a proxy for the sports prowess of the competing superpower nations. So, given the dissimilarity of each country and their sports teams, how does the Olympic medal count count?...