A Sea of Humanity Comes Together to Witness History
Debra Toppeta, co-founder of Woman Around Town, attended the Inauguration and the Mid-Atlantic Ball. By Debra Toppeta What does a crowd of 1.5 million freezing people sound like when the 44th President...
View ArticleThe French, Being French, Critique Obama
By Veronica Manlow For many French citizens, Barack Obama seems to have restored their admiration for the United States as a land of innovation and opportunity. French President Nicholas Sarkozy has...
View ArticleWoman Around Town Visits West Point
Rising at 5 a.m. on a Saturday is not usually my style, but for the commencement exercises at West Point, with guest speaker President Barack Obama, well, I can make exceptions. By 6:30 a.m., the roads...
View ArticleChanging the Climate of Cruelty
Matthew Shepard, a 21 year-old college student died in Wyoming after he was tied to a fence and beaten by two men who singled him out because he was gay. That story is sad enough. What’s really sad,...
View ArticleWoman Around Town: Linda McMahon Looks Ahead
It’s been six months since Linda McMahon lost the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut to Democrat Congressman Chris Murphy. (Murphy beat McMahon 55% to 44%.) But when I meet Linda she is upbeat – exuding...
View ArticleBrothers Forever – A Story of War And the Enduring Bond of Friendship
“If not me, then who…” Travis Manion During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Sunday morning talk shows would honor the military men and women who died by posting their names, ages,...
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