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Enjoy your stuff, but be prepared to let it go
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE One of the perils of life is putting too much value on “stuff.” Stuff can be about anything. It can consist of what we have or what we don’t have. Much of life is about our stuff. Our house, cars, things in the house. Things around the house and things in…
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Remembering fallen heroes
BY SENATOR PHILLIP WHEELER The arrival of Memorial Day has come to feel like the start of summer, especially with so many students’ school years ending across the commonwealth. During the holiday weekend, families across our state will begin their yearly traditions and the memory-making we all enjoy. These moments with family and friends would…
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Freedoms
Dear Editor: Smith & Wesson made all people equal. Now our government is attempting to set us peasants back into caveman times. Just think of all the men and women who gave their very lives for our hard-earned freedoms. Crime is all around us daily. Drugs are all around us daily. Here’s a thought, shut…
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About that ‘border crisis’
BY THOMAS L. KNAPP I’m seeing a lot of back and forth lately on whether or not there’s a “crisis” at the border, with greatly increased migration and limited ability on the part of law enforcement to respond. Personally, I don’t consider it a “crisis” at all. Immigration is just people moving from one place…
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Corporate socialism
Editor: Hal Rogers recently awarded the Martin County Fiscal Court $3.1 million to “improve the sewer system.” You’d think free money would be heralded with a public announcement and maybe a parade. Instead, it was quietly awarded by the Big Sandy Area Development District (ADD) at a special meeting called Friday (March 31) afternoon meeting. …
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Mother’s Day and your time
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE You may have lost your mother early in life or never really knew your mother. My two sons were only 17 and 20 when their mother passed at the age of 49 from multiple sclerosis. Mother’s Day is a tough day for them and many others around the world. This day…
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Terrible ideas + evil actions /= ‘mental illness’
BY THOMAS KNAPP “One problem I have with the whole ‘mental illness’ frame for talking about mass shooters,” Paul Campos writes at Lawyers, Guns & Money, “is that the ‘mental illness’ often appears to be garden variety authoritarian ethno-nationalist misogyny, with the misogyny being the really critical ideological lynchpin [sic].” Campos is riffing on reports…
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When one person rises out of addiction, we all rise
Treatment courts save lives and strengthen communities. Rather than continuing to allow individuals with histories of addiction and crime to cycle through the justice system, treatment courts keep them engaged in treatment long enough to be successful. The approach is no longer an experiment. More than 4,000 treatment courts nationwide will celebrate National Treatment Court…
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Expensive and least expensive colleges
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Many parents and high school seniors are considering college options after high school. It’s a major life decision. Young adults and parents can become financially crippled if careful consideration is not given. Here are some of the most expensive colleges in America, followed by a list of some of the cheapest…
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Precaution cannot be clearer
To the Editor: As firefighters work to contain an escalating wildfire in Natural Bridge State Park, we should remember that it’s not just human lives and homes that are threatened. Deer, bears, birds, fish, reptiles and other animals are killed or displaced by wildfires, too. The impacts are also immediate, debilitating and often life-threatening: Thick…
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