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Give me a coffee and news on paper

Updated: May 14, 2013 7:33pm

I am a news junkie. Give me a cup of coffee and news to read on newsprint each morning and I am content. Turning in my press card after 49 years, 11 months and 15 days has left me rudderless.

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Give the dearly undeparted voters a break

Updated: Oct 08, 2012 10:41am

It seems sanity has prevailed in the Texas quest to find “potentially deceased” people, dead or alive, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The craziness started last year in the Texas...

Follow the money trail and watch the lawyers

Updated: Oct 01, 2012 9:02am

Sometimes the lady who delivers the mail to my home leaves correspondence I could do without. Such was the case recently when I received a notice of a proposed “class action settlement” in U.S...

Closing of a library is like death in family

Updated: Sep 24, 2012 10:45am

As we age, checking the obituary page becomes a daily rite for many. I read recently in an out-of-state newspaper about the pending demise of an old friend. The old friend is the branch...

Cows are smarter than computer geeks

Updated: Sep 17, 2012 12:27pm

In my lifetime I have two real occupations — journalist and milking cows. Milking cows for a living was always my second choice.

The reasons behind my decision not to become a dairyman were...

Pardons and acts of clemency are controversial

Updated: Sep 10, 2012 9:31am

Four White Hall men were debating the merits of Bill Clinton over coffee the morning following the Democratic National Convention and the subject of executive clemency surfaced in their discussion...

Groups have trouble signing up young members

Updated: Sep 04, 2012 8:49am

When the 16 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home from serving their country at the end of World War II, large numbers of the 16 million who had served joined the two largest veterans...

What has happened to the middle class?

Updated: Aug 28, 2012 8:05am

A White Hall man and his son, an accountant, were overheard recently discussing a subject that normally might be considered a dry topic over morning coffee: Median household income.

The...

Attaching a label to just about everything

Updated: Aug 20, 2012 9:22am

An old friend sent an advertisement the other day for a new store in his community. The ad came with a question: What is your décor?

Most men don’t think about labels like décor. I suspect...

Better to be seen than make a scene?

Updated: Aug 13, 2012 10:51am

Doctors used to make house calls. That may be hard for some individuals under the age of 50 to believe, but it is part of medical history.

There was a period in my grandmother’s life when...

Our cars are talking back like teenagers

Updated: Aug 06, 2012 10:02am

Two cars often found parked in my garage or driveway have been telling me that there was something wrong with a tire and an oil change was overdue.

Since our home is occupied by my wife,...

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