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This is Barry Hastings signing off. It’s his swan song
EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry Hastings has been writing this column for Townbroadcast for about two years, but he has to give it up for economic and health reasons. No, he wasn't…
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Democracy Tree: Something is wrong with Trump women
by Amy Kerr Hardin Why would any woman support this boorish creep? Several months ago, I had the unique experience of my step-mom agreeing with me on a critical political issue.…
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Army Bob: Trump has a better idea about North Korea
A peace treaty is a formal arrangement to end war permanently. An armistice is just a temporary cessation of armed conflict. Usually, an armistice is the first step taken toward…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Dorr Twp. political circus is back
The political tempest that was so rampant in Dorr Township a few year ago appears to have been reignited this week by one its protaganists. Trustee John Tuinstra has been…
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Ranger Rick: Trump’s accusers Democratic smoke and mirrors
As soon as Anderson Cooper asked Donald Trump a second time, “For the record, are you saying that what you said on the bus 11 years ago, that you did…
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Army Bob: Woe be unto those who challenge the hateful left
The Police are all violent racists The military are a bunch of imperialist baby killers All who work on Wall Street are evil Religion is an opiate for the masses…
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Monday Moanin’: Education and training important for any job path
By Jim Tisdel, director of Corporate and Community Education, North Central Michigan College There are more than 4,450 jobs available here in northwest Michigan that are going unfilled, according to Labor…
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Barry Hastings: Collapsing GOP moving quickly to dump Trump
by Barry Hastings By Wednesday morning (less than a week ago) pollsters were reporting fully 25% of Republican office-holders around the nation have dumped Donald Trump into their personal, "Not…
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Yes It Is, It’s True: I really don’t think ‘they’ want us to vote
I drop in every Wednesday afternoon at the venerable Then & Now historical library in Dorr, and in my more than four years of research, the most astonishing changes in…
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Army Bob: WikiLeaks reveals cozy relations between DNC, press
by Robert M. Traxler I have spent the last nine hours reading the WikiLeaks e-mails hacked illegally from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Most are boring and hardly worth the…