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Curmudgeon's Corner

“A republic, if you can keep it.” Such was the response Benjamin Franklin gave to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question about what the U.S. Constitution had brought into being: …

Curmudgeon's Corner

Since completing my last marathon in San Antonio in 1990, I never again ran any long distance races. I did, however, run one of the legs of the Longest Day Marathon and the Jack 15 in those long-ago …

Life just never stops throwing you lessons out of nowhere. Sometimes a half-beat too late. I say this because I got engaged last weekend. And I solicited and received a lot of advice in the …

Speakout

Before I tell you this story I would like to assure you that 98 percent of it is true. It attempts to adhere to Native American writer N. Scott Momaday’s belief that a memoir is our best idea …

Curmudgeon's Corner

To anyone to who has been following the messages of Gov. Kristi Noem, especially residents of Texas and South Dakota, I offer the following interpretation (with apologies to George M. Cohan) of what …

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