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  • Name a school for Will

    Dr. John Telford, Contributing Columnist|Aug 26, 2021

    In the June edition of the 'Native Sun', I wrote a 'Telford Telescope' column about the iconic old Detroit coach Will Robinson. It featured a picture of Will and me with my second wife, Gina Telford taken in 2006 when Will was 95 years old. In 2015, I wrote Will's biography--''Will the FIRST - The Saga of Sports/Civil-Rights Pioneer WILL ROBINSON.' The book is 342 pages, illustrated with 27 photographs, and a photo of the statue of Will with his All-American player Doug Collins is on the front c...

  • Telford Telescope - Intimation of Immortality?

    Dr. John Telford|Apr 16, 2020

    'IN THE INTERIM' - I've raced interim sprinters in interim races, / Loved interim women in interim places, / Been interim Chief of Detroit's troubled schools, / And of Madison's briefly--contending with fools. / Between the desire and the base spasm / Whence once we were sired to cross the great chasm, / From that fast spurting until the last curtain, / Between our first stirring and final interring-- / Indeed, we're ALL "interim"--yet just IN the interim??? I penned this reflectively... Full story

  • Our free world in peril

    Dr. John Telford, Contributor|Feb 13, 2020

    On January 29, before the cravenly Republican senators voted on February 5 to give the criminal false president Donald Trump dictatorial powers instead of righteously removing him from office, I and countless others received a fund-raising email from his co-conspirator in his Ukraine coverup--Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell--via the 'Daily Grind News.' Perhaps because I "redacted" the fund-raising information in that January 29 email from Sen. McConnell to which I was responding and had... Full story

  • 'TRUMPianTale'

    Dr. John Telford, Contributor|Apr 25, 2019

    Back in early 2016, might Hollywood have ever accepted this far-fetched 'TRUMPian Tale' for a movie? Let us reflect for a moment that there ac- tually has dwelled in our dis-United States a psycho-pathologically narcissistic, infantile, draft-dodging liar named Trump whose Wharton professor once pronounced him "the dumbest student I ever had," and who was given $400 million by his father--a former Ku Klux Klansman--to get started in business. This racist, ignorant, amorally sinister son of an... Full story