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Yes It Is, It’s True: Quality female athletes just keep coming

It was an extraordinary week for female athletes from Hopkins and Wayland High Schools, and it happened over just two days. No fewer than four young ladies, two from Wayland…
Posted by Editor May 20, 2017
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Basura: Appreciation of the Cottage Bar on its 90th birthday

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." —…
Posted by Editor May 19, 2017
Army Bob: Trump merely highlights trust issues with media
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Army Bob: Trump merely highlights trust issues with media

President Donald Trump did not cause the trust issue with the media, he highlighted it. The American media, the self-proclaimed royalty of our nation, wined and dined and bribed by…
Posted by Editor May 18, 2017
Fatigue is about the only nasty side effect of radiation
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Fatigue is about the only nasty side effect of radiation

by Robert M. Traxler After five months of drug treatment, testing, evaluating, probing and studying the long-awaited offensive is thankfully under way. Radiation will kill the cancer, hopefully all of…
Posted by Editor May 16, 2017
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Yes It Is, It’s True: United we stand, divided we fall

Contempt: “The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving.” Not long ago, I read an opinion piece in which the author asserted the deteriorating…
Posted by Editor May 14, 2017
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Subterranian Tales: McDonald Trump – ‘The Founder’ parable

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the first installment of columns by my former college roommate, Walter G. Tarrow of Southgate. A Vietnam veteran, he’s always been a bit of a…
Posted by Editor May 14, 2017
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Ranger Rick: The Wayland Magical Mystery Land Deal

(Tap your heels three times and say I want it cheap!) The continuing drama of the “Outstanding Wayland Land Deal” reminds me of the Chicken Man radio series popular in…
Posted by Editor May 12, 2017
Army Bob: Marijuana will be legal, health concerns matter not
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Army Bob: Marijuana will be legal, health concerns matter not

by Robert M. Traxler The Center for Disease Control (CDC), a federal agency, has recently published a paper on marijuana use. I am confident that we as a nation will…
Posted by Editor May 11, 2017
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Ranger Rick: Taxation and debt reality — not a fairy tale

Taxation Example Story (Sad but True): Suppose that every day, five men go out for drinks and the bill for all five comes to $100. If they paid their bill…
Posted by Editor May 9, 2017
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Barry Hastings: Located in the sewers of Washington D.C.

By Barry Hastings A few weeks ago, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence began floundering over some misconduct by the chairman, Devin Nunes, a Republican sneak (and snake)…
Posted by Editor May 8, 2017

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