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Inventor wannabe plays footsie with Sock Slider

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By Lori Borgman I’ve come up with a fair number of inventions in my time, but most of the things I’ve wanted to invent have...

Letter: Consider pedestrian bridge at Greenwood mall

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To the editor: I know that Greenwood is looking for ways to increase walkability in its city. One of the key areas that could really...

Tariffs won’t cure trade deficit blues

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Los Angeles Times (TNS) President Donald Trump has been the biggest advocate of protectionism to occupy the White House since Herbert Hoover. So far, though,...

Inventor wannabe plays footsie with Sock Slider

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<strong>By Lori Borgman</strong> I’ve come up with a fair number of inventions in my time, but most of the things I’ve wanted to invent have...

China using fentanyl in chemical war against U.S.

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By Markos Kounalakis Fentanyl is the synthetic opioid driving America’s public health crisis. Its cheap price, widespread use, addictive quality and deadly effect make it...

Guthrie song evokes November memories

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By Norman Knight Fifty years ago, popular music seemed to be in the very air I was breathing. The sounds I was hearing along with...

Trump’s attack on right to vote real

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Miami Herald (TNS) Kris Kobach has worked day and night to suppress (some) Americans’ right to vote in his state of Kansas, where he’s the...

Teaching good citizenship is up to all of us

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By Andrea Neal James Madison and the Founding Fathers believed an informed citizenry was the chief protection of the republican government they had created. Madison...

Letter: Rich ‘bulldozers’ need to be stopped

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To the editor: We Americans are living in a libertarian, reality show nightmare produced and directed by the Koch Brothers and their billionaire colleagues, including...

White death: Sugar, carbs and cancer links

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By Sam Apple In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: 13 separate cancers...