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Feature Articles

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Selection of feature articles by Rick Skwiot “Paradise Sought,” Washington magazine. “Instrumental to the Music Industry,” Washington magazine. “Pride Goeth after the Fall,” St. Louis Magazine. “A Writer’s Life: Real but Unlikely,” Washington magazine. “How to Protect Yourself from Hearing Loss,” St. Louis Magazine. “Food for Thought,” St. Louis Magazine. “Stemming Health-Care Fraud,”Washington University Magazine. [...]

A Hot Town for Adult Pleasures

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By Rick Skwiot (Published in PortFolio Weekly) KEY WEST – One popular Key West bumper sticker, usually seen on rusty pick-ups with Monroe County, Florida, plates, reads, “If it’s the ‘season,’ why can’t we shoot them?” “Them” being the snowbirds and tourists (known locally also as “tourons”) who flock to the island in winter, crowd [...]

On the Firing Line: The Blackwater Training Center

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On the Firing Line: The Blackwater Training Center in Moyock teaches soldiers, cops and ordinary citizens how to keep their edge in an increasingly dangerous world. By Rick Skwiot (Published in PortFolio Weekly) The most dangerous creatures lurking in The Great Dismal Swamp that spans the Virginia-North Carolina line are not the 600-pound black bears, [...]