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Yes It Is, It’s True: No Super Bowl for 45 straight years
The Super Bowl has started as I write this, and for the 45th consecutive year, "I'm not going to watch it. I'll just have to miss it." And this has…
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One Small Voice: The difference between ‘kind’ and ‘nice’
by Lynn Mandaville Recently, I had an experience at our local pharmacy that got me pondering the meanings of two seemingly synonymous words. The experience was this: I was filling…
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Guest column: We are proud Spartans, despite Nassar
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a guest column written by Pamela Heijerman, a sophomore at Michigan State University and an alumna of Martin High School. by Pamela Heijerman With multiple sexual…
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Army Bob: Mexico’s higher killing rate and drug trade
According to a report attributed to Reuters, the year 2016 saw 25,000 murders in Mexico. The United States, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, saw nearly 17,250 murders in…
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The Subterranean: ‘Paddington 2’ softens hardest heart
**** out of five stars Currently in theaters by Walter G. Tarrow The sweetest movie ever made. A treacly confection lovingly crafted to soften the hardest of hearts. And for you…
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Basura: Misadventures in flying to Cockburn Town
“Tell me, what do you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver, from her anthology of poetry We were going from Providenciales on Caicos…
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Ranger Rick: Chicken Littles still insist the sky is falling
The recent death of John Coleman, creator of the Weather Channel and the Good Morning America weathercaster, is good news for those myopic, zombie, global warming/global climate change folks or…
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One Small Voice: When will we solve gun violence issue?
by Lynn Mandaville School shootings are part of a "crime wave" evolving in our country, says White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (It started under the Obama administration, dontcha…
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Army Bob: Sean Penn running off at the mouth again
On Jan. 12 in an Op-Ed in Time magazine, Sean Penn penned: “The solution to our current divisiveness does not live in the White House. Instead, we will find unity only…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Local tax issues are complicated
“My goal is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.” — Grover Norquist Columnist…