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Sports Organizations are Out of Hand By Bob Branco   We live in a society which allowed sports corporations to give away so much money to their employees that it's the employees who call the shots.  It seems that when a sports team loses too many games or if players on the [ Continue to post page ]

Panhandling By Bob Branco   In the city where I live, there are lots of panhandlers who stand on street corners, in parking lots and on highway exit ramps. Some even bring their chairs and bask in the sun while soliciting money from the general public. They do this in order [ Continue to post page ]

Coping Rooms on College Campuses by Bob Branco   I can’t believe what’s happening on some college campuses today. If you are a student, and you can’t cope with the fact that Donald Trump is now the president of the United States, you now have access to a designated coping [ Continue to post page ]

  Instant Replay in Major League Baseball By Bob Branco   I think that instant replay is necessary in sports. It’s always important to double-check a play in case of human error. While other sports adopted and adjusted to instant replay, it took a long time for [ Continue to post page ]

  The Blind and the Media By Bob Branco   Have you ever spoken to the news media about an accomplishment that you've made?  If so, did it seem as though the reporter put too much of a spin on what you did, especially if you are blind?  In other words, though your [ Continue to post page ]

  The Unemployment Rate is Deceiving By Bob Branco   Why are we expected to believe the unemployment rate? It is fictitious! When the statistic is taken, it does not include people out of work who no longer receive unemployment benefits. Yet we are supposed to believe [ Continue to post page ]

The Limitations of Computers By Bob Branco   The computer is a fascinating tool.  I think most of us would agree that it makes life much easier.  Without my computer, it would be much more difficult for me to publish my own magazine and do other practical things. As great as [ Continue to post page ]

Should the Blind Own Guns? by Bob Branco (Originally published in Matilda Ziegler Magazine, 2013)   Should a blind person own a gun? This question has been getting a lot of attention since the state of Iowa decided to consider giving its blind residents gun [ Continue to post page ]

The Unemployment Rate of the Blind from a Technological Perspective By Bob Branco   When I joined the National Federation of the Blind in 1981, I found out that the unemployment rate of the blind was seventy percent. To me, the reason was obvious. There was a lot of [ Continue to post page ]

  The Evolution of Schools for the Blind By Bob Branco   With rare exception, the student population which attended such schools years ago had blindness as their only disability. I was one of those students. We were trained how to shop, cook, clean, travel, play [ Continue to post page ]