Columns – Page 121

Yes It’s True: Public deserves the truth from news services

WOOD-TV Channel 8 has produced a week-long self promotion feature in celebration of its 70 years in broadcasting. Some of the information presented is fascinating, but some also lands a…

Editor August 18, 2019

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One Small Voice: Legacies written on the heart, in the mind

In recent days I’ve been giving an unusual amount of thought to the idea of legacy. Twelve years ago, when my Ma died, and my sisters and I were distributing…

Editor August 17, 2019

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Army Bob: Government with socialism will control our lives

Let's discuss a nation with government health care, government-run colleges and government-run commerce and labor. Under the banner of health care, our leaders can control our lives even more than…

Editor August 15, 2019

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Ranger Rick: On ICE, blame everybody but the lawbreakers

Most of us have backgrounds of mostly small town upbringing. We were surrounded by those people who knew and loved us, not just relatives, but neighbors and friends. We were…

Editor August 13, 2019

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Basura: Naneena Ice Classic payout is more than $300,000

“The use of traveling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson NANEENA, Alaska. — We…

Editor August 12, 2019

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Yes It’s True: I fear ‘The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street’

Call me a nervous Nellie if you wish, but I am fearful that Vladimir Putin and his Russian henchmen and henchwomen are winning a high tech cyber war against the…

Editor August 11, 2019

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One Small Voice: ICE raids create environment of terror

That the president doesn’t see that his ICE raids in Mississippi are separating families the same way his tactics at the southern border did is incredibly disturbing. But it’s not…

Editor August 10, 2019

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Army Bob: Why are so many prejudging our old white men?

by Robert M. Traxler When did being a white old man become a bad thing? You have no choice in how or who you are born. So why are folks…

Editor August 8, 2019

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Ranger Rick: Gun control response won’t control killing

The last few days have been difficult to say the least. Killings in El Paso and Dayton, death of a local fellow citizen I've known for some time and a…

Editor August 6, 2019

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Austin Marsman: What I saw at the Democratic debates

by Austin Marsman It’s true, I was one of the people to receive tickets for the Democratic Presidential debates in Detroit last week. It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass…

Editor August 6, 2019