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Passions are high, but state’s presidential voting numbers have remained reliably ‘red’

Like everything else in 2020, the election cycle seems to have been going on for WAY too long.…

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What media to trust? Newspapers get my vote

There is more content available today about the upcoming election than likely in any previous cycle. While we…

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How I spent my 36-hour power outage vacation

Someone is in the kitchen sticking a coffee-related concoction into the microwave. My ears perk up at the…

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Separation of powers: Attempts to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court have a long history

Depending on one’s partisan leanings, the latest national furor over so-called “court-packing” started with the failed 2016 Supreme…

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This is home for me — and there’s no place like it

I’ve never had a problem adjusting to new places — new houses, schools, job locations, towns or a…

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As political debates go, Trump-Biden is not the wildest, most intense one I’ve witnessed

The raucous, at times, incomprehensible first 2020 presidential debate between incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic contender…

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School’s mission is about way more than a man

As a mom of five, I’ve done my share of college preview days. The walking tours, the scholarship…

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Some of my friends are for it and some against it

Marijuana. Some of my friends are for it and some of my friends are against it and ……

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Peanut farming — Putting PB&Js on the table, watching tornadoes on water skis

Carlisle Lane in Claiborne County is a strip of blacktop that leads to pretty much nowhere, except vast…

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With Roe v. Wade as litmus test, expect judicial appointments to be political brawls

Democrats and Republicans alike have strained at gnats to obscure the fact that decisions regarding the naming of…