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Articles from the June 19, 2014 edition


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  • Imposing law violates others' rights

    link Kent Mcmanigal Local columnist Not a day goes by I don’t witness a complaint by someone saying their freedoms are being trampled on and legislated away. Almost everyone can point to something they enjoy that has been regulated into illegality — or severely restricted — by government edict. Yet, if you question most of those same people you’ll find they are enthusiastic about violating the liberty of others to do certain things. That’s how Americans find themselve...

  • Amos the churchmouse — Jonah the gourdhead

    Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens. jonah the gourdhead boss you remember jonah the high-falutin frog the fellow who always thought he was better than everybody else - especially toads and mice and all other varieties of god s creatures now they call him jonah the gourdhead why you ask i ll tell you why actually it s a rather simple task as a matter of fact you see boss the...

  • Live out the Gospel in everyday life

    Judy Brandon

    The month of June reminds me days gone by when my children were little. I worked at finding activities to fill their days. Today I look back and realize that some of those most meaningful events were unplanned and free. Annie, John Scott and Buffy were in grade school when we lived on the edge of town. A large vacant field surrounded our house and that was the scene of an exciting and entertaining event which would unfold on the corner of our street. link Judy Brandon Columnis... Full story

  • Grouse threatened listing no solution

    link Jim Constantopoulos Guest columnist Fish and Wildlife Service seems confounded by the negative response to listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species. In designating the lesser prairie chicken as threatened, a step down from endangered but warranting specific protections, it had provided assurances that no additional federal regulations that might have an adverse impact on economic activities would be imposed. Then why make the designation in the first...

  • 6-20-Selmus-Price

    Courtesy photo Selmus Price, a coordinator of the Sunday Juneteenth service at Legacy Life Family Church, is to keep alive the memory of the end to slavery in the United States.... Full story

  • Responsibility can't be delegated

    link Rube Render Local columnist There is an iron clad maxim of leadership that while it is possible to delegate authority to someone other than yourself, you can never delegate responsibility. This principle has held true in the Naval Service from the earliest days of sailing vessels up to today’s nuclear powered carriers. Any number of Navy captains as well as leaders of ground troops have been summarily relieved of their commands for events they had little or no control o...

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