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Yes It Is, It’s True: Baseball defends electoral college

Townbroadcast has been inundated lately with opinions about the electoral college method of selecting the American president, thanks to a column by the venerable Army Bob. Column author Robert M.…

Editor December 2, 2018

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Army Bob: Founders were wise with electoral college

The map shows us that those old dead guys who established our constitutional democracy were very perceptive. The founders were concerned that the states of Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania…

Editor November 29, 2018

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Ranger Rick: More climate ‘pie in the sky’ change

If you are like most consumers of media you know about all the horrors of global warming, climate change, global cooling, warming oceans, cooling oceans, CO2 increases, CO2 decreases, etc.…

Editor November 27, 2018

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One Small Voice: Compare romaine lettuce to guns

by Lynn Mandaville Back in April of this year there was a nationwide recall of chopped romaine lettuce because of the deaths of several people and the illnesses of many…

Editor November 26, 2018

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Yes It Is, Is True: I believe I’ve been lied to all my life

"We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every…

Editor November 22, 2018

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Army Bob: Ingesting any kind of smoke is bad for you

by Robert M. Traxler “So far in 2018, more than 48,900 fires have burned more than 7,700,000 acres of land in the United States, according to the National Interagency Fire…

Editor November 22, 2018

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Ranger Rick: The avoidable tragedy of Calif. wildfires

On Nov. 8, the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. high voltage line near Poe Dam malfunctioned and started a fire in the early morning. A captain of the California Department…

Editor November 20, 2018

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One Small Voice: Dining set tells Thanksgiving history

The massive, Victorian dining room furniture had been in the house at the Jersey shore since the house was bought in 1940, but the furniture actually dated from the 1920s,…

Editor November 19, 2018

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Yes It Is, It’s True: We are powerless vs. gas prices

"If I could have my way. I'd get myself right up today, but I can't, so I'll cry instead." — The Beatles "There ain't nothin' I can do about it."…

Editor November 17, 2018

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Army Bob: We are not just tribes, we are Americans

Political holy grail is that the Republicans are practicing “tribalism.” What constitutes tribalism is once more what people want it to be. “Tribalism is the state of being organized by,…

Editor November 15, 2018