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Niece is witness to tragedy — again
More than a week after a gunman killed 12 and injured dozens of others at a movie theater in Colorado, I am still poring over the many stories that continue to come out about the victims and acts of sacrifice. It seems to always happen …
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Brothers built mirror-image houses
The mirror-image houses built by brothers, Charles R. and J. Stanley Handford in 1888, are directly across from each other at 658 and 659 Boswell St. in downtown Batesville. The identical, but reversed, floor plans were accomplished by merrily flipping the architectural drawings. It is …
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Four-legged diva proves world has gone to the dogs
If there really is a thing as reincarnation, I would want to come back as a dog named Kira. She belongs to my cousin’s daughter Ashley. She is a small shih tzu that has to be the most spoiled, pampered pooch I have ever seen. …
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100 million gun owners didn’t kill anyone last week
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” —Thomas Jefferson For my 10th birthday, I wanted a BB gun. Like the mother in “A Christmas Story,” Mom simply said, “You’ll shoot …
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Raising minimum wage good for Main Street
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce supported the last increase in the federal minimum wage on July 2009 and we believe another raise is overdue. The business owners I talk with every day say that, far from hurting their businesses, raising the minimum wage in …
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Lipstick commentary
This may not be politically correct, but it’s politically intriguing: Increasingly on television, the more conservative women are in their views, the more liberal they are in flaunting their sexuality. Television favors attractive people, both women and men, regardless of their politics — that’s a …
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‘Snake Doctors’ embedded in folk culture
As a 4-year-old I became familiar with the term “snake doctors” at my Mam-maw and Pap-paw Farrier’s rural farmstead 10 miles west of Cave City. I distinctly remember Mam-maw saying as she looked out a window, “There sure are a lot of snake doctors flying …
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Paying attention to inner self
I knew it. I knew it. How many times have you ignored your own gut instincts? You go forward with something even though a niggling little part of your brain is telling you that something is wrong. Then when things do go wrong, as your …
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Eye for an eye
Have you ever seen one of those big deep diving bass fishing lures up close, the ones with the two shiny razor sharp treble hooks jangling from the bottom? My little brother Heath has; and he loves to tell that story on me. However, over …
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Penn State plea bargain exposes NCAA spinelessness
Those in the know at Penn State are relieved that the university escaped the death penalty for its football program which could, and should, have been imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the cover-up of child sex abuse. The $60 million contribution …
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‘UN gun control’ will kill Second Ammendment
“Representatives from many of the world’s socialist, tyrannical and dictatorial regimes [are gathering] at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a month-long meeting, in which they’ll put the finishing touches on an international Arms Trade Treaty that could seriously restrict your freedom to …
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Ledge update
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas will enjoy its annual sales tax holiday the weekend of Aug. 4 and 5. On those days, no state or local sales taxes will be collected on clothing items priced less than $100. Also exempt from the sales taxes on that …
