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The house that built me; fond memories of the past
BY KYLE LOVERN Every once in a while, a song comes along that touches you inside. A few years ago one of my favorite country music stars, Miranda Lambert, had a huge hit with “The House That Built Me.” The video shows her visiting the house where she grew up. I can definitely relate to…
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Risk is lower, but it’s NOT time to resume pre-pandemic life, New York doctors write in one of the nation’s top medical journals
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Wafaa M. El-Sadr, Columbia University; Dr. Ashwin Vasan, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Ayman El-Mohandes, City University of New York We’ve come a long way. From the early, terrifying days of a rapidly spreading deadly infection to the current…
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Tired of hearing about China? Stop the cash flow
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE Do you get tired of hearing about China? Now we have floating surveillance balloons over our country. We are yet to know for sure what this is about, but time will tell. China is probably scouting out the next land or business purchase. They may have come up with an easy…
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Remembering phone booths: They have disappeared from our landscape
BY KYLE LOVERN Phone booths used to be everywhere, but you don’t see them these days. I guess the younger generation wouldn’t even know what one was if they saw it. Heck, they would not even know how to use a rotary-style telephone inside an older booth. The first public coin-operated pay phone appeared in…
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Classified document stink piles
BY DR. GLENN MOLLETTE An Old Testament story records an overwhelming infestation of frogs throughout Egypt. There was no place in Egypt where frogs were not present in large numbers. The plague was sent in response to Pharoah’s attitude toward the Israelite people who lived in slavery under his rule. When God ended the plague,…
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Legislative Update: Why lower income taxes?
BY REPRESENTATIVE BOBBY MCCOOL Before I begin this week’s legislative update, I want to thank everyone who took the time to complete my legislative questionnaire. As I read through the responses, I noticed that someone asked, “Why do we want to lower income taxes?” and thought I might answer it in this column. The fact…