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Tom Robotham is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher. He began his career as an education reporter and music columnist for The Staten Island Advance in New York City and subsequently embarked on a successful freelance career. In addition to contributing to a variety of national and regional newspapers and magazines, he has written five books on American history and culture. He is now freelancing once again, after serving for 10 years as editor-in-chief of Port Folio Weekly, an alternative newsweekly serving southeastern Virginia. During his tenure there he won numerous awards, including the Virginia Press Association’s prestigious D. Lathan Mims Award for Editorial Leadership in the Community. Tom holds a B.A. in English from the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and a M.A. in American Studies from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He currently lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he serves as a director of The Muse Writers Center.
Shadows Dispelled: An Interview with D.D. Delaney
By Tom Robotham
Healed after a life-threatening illness, a veteran Norfolk-based actor takes on the role of Scrooge with new vigor.
View from the TReehouse: Opiate of the People
By Tom Robotham
When I worked for Port Folio I argued strenuously against the idea of developing editorial policies in response to market research. Editors and writers have a responsibility to cover what they think is important—not what readers say they want.
Onward Christian Soldiers
By Tom Robotham
Cal Thomas has outdone himself. In a column published in the Oct. 14 edition of The Virginian-Pilot, he expressed a degree of hatred and hypocrisy that was surprising even for him.
Health Care: Rhetoric and Reality
By Tom Robotham
Conservatives who argue that the United States has the best health care system in the world are, by and large, people who’ve never had to worry that if they go in for a simple physical they might not be able to pay their monthly bills.
Safe Harbor
By Tom Robotham
Tom Robotham reflects on how his beloved vacation retreat, Ocracoke Island, has changed through the years.
Tom Robotham’s Take: Carpe Diem
By Tom Robotham
To this day, when I think of my dad, it is as if he is saying, “This is what I did with my life, for better and worse—what have you made of yours, and what do you want to do with the time you have left?”
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