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Basura: City slickers, kids educated in Overisel farm visit
“With an oink oink here, an oink oink there, here an oink, there an oink, everywhere an oink oink.” — Old MacDonald Had a Farm It was 1981,…
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The Subterranean: Safdie Bros. score with ‘Good Time’
Review of "Good Time" ***1/2 out of five stars Currently showing at Celebration! Cinema RiverTown in Grandville A bank heist gone awry with two brothers, a smart one and a…
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Army Bob: Military leadership slowly overcoming terrorism
by Robert M. Traxler ISIL/ISIS is losing ground, the Caliphate is shrinking; a very good question to ask is, why? Those of you who regularly read this column, thank you…
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One Small Voice: For our friends in Houston, send money
by Lynn Mandaville The name Harvey used to evoke in me memories of an old Jimmy Stewart film about a wealthy, eccentric man named Elwood P. Dowd whose companion is…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Remove ‘bullshit’ from banned words list
I hereby humbly ask the Federal Communications Commission to lift its unfair ban on the word “bullshit” in the mistaken belief it is profane. The word has climbed into common…
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Ranger Rick: Trumpkins of the world unite, enjoy the ride!
Whenever I would write an article and mention Barack Obama and was chastised for not addressing him as President Obama, I agreed with their viewpoint, and as much as I…
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The Subterranean: Waging bloody war in clean office space.
Review of Drone ***1/2 out of five stars Currently available in video "Drone" is a taut little thriller about Neil Wistin (Sean Bean), an employee of a military contractor to…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Like old CBS ad, ‘Have we got a fall for you’
"Surprise, Surprise, Surprise" — Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Gomer Pyle USMC." It’s only been a little more than a week into the fall sports season, and…
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Army Bob: Police body cameras are both good and bad
by Robert M. Traxler Let’s talk about police body cameras. Our friends who do not care for the police (mostly folks on the far-left side of the argument but not…
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One Small Voice: Grandkids a big reason for moving west
It has been a "frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" (from Lewis Carroll's JABBERWOCKY). We spent the entire afternoon at our son Randy's house, cavorting in the pool with his little boys,…