The Wicomico County Board of Education adopted the state's mask mandate for the public school system. Around 50 to a hundred showed up most to protest the required mask wearing by students. Delmarva Public Media's Don Rush was there and has this report.

Host Don Rush explores the issue of race with Michael Coffino, author of a new novel “Truth is in the House” which chronicles an African American from the South and a white Irish immigrant in New York as their lives intertwine over the decades.

Harold Wilson’s guests are The Community Players of Salisbury Producer and Director Matt Brogdan,, and actors Mike Murphy and Pete Cuesta.  They are discussing the latest production of  the Community Players, “Edgar Allen Poe: The Dark Side.” The production is a live, memorized, word-for-word recitation of the darker works of Poe. Featured works include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Raven,” “ The Cask of Amontillado” and others. The production will open outdoors at the Kylan Barn in Delmar on October 22.

The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US coincides with the end of the US land war in Afghanistan.  Yet, it doesn’t end the US political relationship to Afghanistan now in the hands of the Taliban.

In the wake of these events, perhaps we should reconsider the relationship between war and politics and diplomacy?  Is one just the extension of the other or quite different?

Michael O’Loughlin, professor emeritus at Salisbury University, reflects on these questions.