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[Ed. — This story originally ran in print on Dec. 9.] BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH — A couple of weeks before Election Day, Marlon Machado worked
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS OCEANFRONT — The work at the intersection of 19th Street and Cypress Avenue, a new piece of public art within the ViBe
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO — President-elect Donald Trump in 2015 said he wouldn’t rule out compiling a registration of Muslim people in the U.S. Now it looks
FROM THE EDITOR PUNGO — The Independent News does not endorse candidates for office, but it urges citizens to engage in the great work of
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE VIRGINIA BEACH — During the ceremony this past month, before the blessing of 4.8 acres of Lake Edward Park that someday will
BY JORGE SAGUE MIAMI — Thirty years ago, on Aug. 14, 1986, I was discharged from the U.S. Navy because, under oath, I was asked