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Richard Falknor

Contact: richardfalknor@roadstarinternet.net

Richard Falknor is a writer, journalist, and a close student of those American and British conservatives who continue to influence modern times.

For nearly 15 years, Falknor managed an independent weekly health-business newsletter from the publication’s Prince Frederick, Maryland. office. This five-reporter publication became the “bible” of the home health care industry.

Falknor gained substantial hands-on government experience as an aide to U. S. Senator Henry M. Jackson and to House and Senate committees, then as a policy staffer with the U. S. Department of Transportation and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The American Political Science Association named Falknor a Congressional Staff Fellow enabling him to attend Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he received his M.P.A. in 1967.

A graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of California at Berkeley, he received the Army Commendation Medal for his work editing the Seventh Army newspaper in the Cold War Germany of the late 1950s.

Falknor served as Executive Vice President of the Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc. and earlier on MTA’s Board from 2000 to the end of 2007. He continues to chair the Maryland Center-Right Coalition (the Maryland Thursday Meeting) which he has done since November 2000. Of course, the author’s posts represent his views alone, not those of these organizations or coalitions. Married to Susan Freis Falknor, a professional editor and a published poet, long-time Marylander Falknor now lives next to the Blue Ridge in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Falknor has also been a columnist for the on-line http://novapolitics.com/ and for http://virginianewssource.com

Susan Freis Falknor

Contact: susanfre@roadstarinternet.net

Susan Freis Falknor, principal of Cormorant Communications, is a professional writer and editor.

She is a board member of Virginia Concerned Women for America.

She is also a participant in, and the webmaster of the Maryland Center-Right Coalition. Of course, the author’s posts represent her views alone, not those of these organizations.

Drawing on her substantial experience in nonprofit think tanks (such as the Urban Institute and the American Enterprise Institute) and for-profit information companies, professionally Susan Falknor researches and produces reports, op-eds, speeches, and Internet content.

Holding degrees in Humanities and English from the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland, Susan Freis Falknor is also a published poet.

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