Worthy to Print Column: Count Your Blessings
How are you doing? Still staying in the house? Itās getting a little old, donāt you think? I guess we just have to remember something that was told to me when I was elected to the council. We were in Sacramento for some classes...
Worthy to Print Column | Life Lessons
Itās kind of strange to start a column like that, but I have been struck with a book I have been reading and I havenāt even finished the first chapter. Itās called āHillbilly Elegy,ā by J.D. Vance. This is the guy the Republicans have...
Window on the World Column | Olive and Mabel, Mary and Tony
During the last several months of Covid ā or the ongoing lifetime of this pandemic, depending on how you feel about it ā people and dogs seem to have become even closer. Record adoption levels at shelters were noted the world over. People needed...
Letters to the Editor for Week of April 19
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Worthy to Print Column | A Day in the Life of a Soldier ā Part I
The other day Lorraine and I were talking with a family friend about my column. The friend said she particularly liked the articles about the military, not because she served but because she had loved ones that had served in that little skirmish 10,000...
Funny Papers Again Column | How I Later Became a Sooner
If I ever again contemplate air travel, it will only be because I have lost all sensibilities and am probably living in a room with rubber walls. The last time I flew in a jet airliner I vowed it would be just that, the...
Worthy to Print Column | Just a Few Thoughts
I woke up this morning thinking about what I should be thinking about. I just sat in front of the flickering screen until my love walked through the room and asked if I had a subject picked out yet. So I picked up the...
Worthy to Print Column | We the People
I have mentioned often about my young life in Wasco and the field work I did before I left for the military. Well, it occurred to me this morning that you might have thought I was a deprived young man. To the contrary, I...




















