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Barry Hastings: After Iowa shambles, the race is ON

So now Yang, Patrick and Bennet are out of the Democratic primary race for president. South Carolina, Nevada, Super Tuesday, California, then Michigan are looming. After them, we should havea pretty good…

Editor February 16, 2020

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One Small Voice: Trump shows no respect for law

“The appearance of a conflict of interest” was the reason I was given 30 years ago. I had recently been elected to the Wayland Union Schools Board of Education, and…

Editor February 16, 2020

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Splintering: Another reason for the death of the 1960s

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the third is a series of columns examining reasons why the 1960s protest, long hair, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll died so quickly, lifted…

Editor February 15, 2020

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Barry Hastings: Trump challenges all our decency

Throughout the many years I’ve been writing for publication, I’ve periodically promised readers I’ll never knowingly tell them an untruth, a mistruth, or an outright lie. These days, I'm forced…

Editor February 13, 2020

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Army Bob: The U.S. cannot stop climate change, if real

Food for thought: Every year the world's human population grows at an ever-increasing rate of more than 83,000,000 a year, per Wikipedia. Diet and medical care, mostly in China/Africa and…

Editor February 13, 2020

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Ranger Rick: My bold predictions on Dem nomination

In New Hampshire, there are really five viable candidates who have a chance to win the state primary and move on to the next debacle. My take on their chances…

Editor February 11, 2020

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Army Bob: Should we use masks to fight Coronavirus?

by Robert M. Traxler I have always been one of those annoying folks who believes in the old adages “ a stitch in time saves nine,” “victory comes to the…

Editor February 8, 2020

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Yes It’s True: 1970 was the evil year the music died

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the second of a series of columns, extracted from a book never published, examining why those Fabulous Sixties, known for protest, free sex, drugs and…

Editor February 8, 2020

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Army Bob: About Schiffting the ownership of Alaska

by Robert M. Traxler Folks, you can’t make this stuff up. U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (Democrat-California), a House of Representative Impeachment Manager, stated on the floor of the United States…

Editor February 6, 2020

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One Small Voice: Romney is ‘the cheese stands alone’

by Lynn Mandaville “Today Mitt Romney is the cheese,” I said. “What?” my husband Dave asked me over the sound of the talking heads on the television. “Mitt Romney is…

Editor February 6, 2020