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Opinion

Game scores tell only part of story

Local Commentaries

This is not a story about football, baseball, or any normally entertaining game. It was however, for me, a game of survival. I felt like a gladiator at the Coliseum, when COVID nailed me two years ago. Very sick, I was yet determined not to let it get me. I finally said to Dear Richard, “We ...

Our opinion: Choice proposal has promise

Our Opinion

Republicans in our state Legislature are optimistic about a proposal to expand options for school children. The proposal would allow students in poorly performing public schools to transfer to private schools, charter schools or to other, better-performing public schools. Scholarships to ...

Our opinion: Rural broadband betters economy

Our Opinion

Over the last decade or so, copious amounts of ink have been spilled and many pixels have been rearranged to explain the vast and growing gulf between America’s slow-growing or declining rural communities and its flourishing cities. Much of the divide — and it’s become an issue in other ...

Our opinion: Setting a positive tone for 2023

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How wonderful, to be presented with another New Year - another occasion on which many of us choose to attempt a fresh start. How fortunate we are to live in a nation where such reinvention is possible, for so many. But as we prepare to celebrate the chance for change, let us not forget our ...

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Letters To Editor

Smell of leadership Dear Editor, The lingering stink of the authoritarian, sociopath 45th President and of his supporters stood in pungent contrast when Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington D. C. and addressed Congress in the same Capitol building Trump’s people stormed ...

Before looking ahead, take time to reflect

Local Commentaries

Often the focus of New Year’s resolutions emphasizes what is ahead such as setting goals and challenges to be achieved in the future. This focus on resolutions is often connected with an unintentional decrease in reflecting on what we are grateful for in the past year. I once heard Dave ...