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March 29, 2024

Guest Column | King Cityā€™s Efforts to Address Youth Violence

A major priority of the City of King is to end youth violence. In 2016, a community task force developed the Cityā€™s Comprehensive Plan to End Youth violence. The plan was implemented in 2017 and shootings decreased from 64 during the period of 2015...

Funny Papers Again Column | All Things Being Equinox; et al

Summer comes to an end tomorrow when the Fall Equinox descends upon us with equal amounts of day and night heralding the incremental journey toward shorter days and longer nights. I am not fond of that particular cosmic arrangement, in fact prefer the exact...

Funny Papers Again Column | From Russia Without Love

I was attending a baseball game on the Greenfield Elementary School grounds when a car pulled up next to the entrance gate on 10th Street. It was a black four-door Ford, just like the ones the FBI drove on television, with two men in...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Royal Mess, a Royal Lady and Nonsense

This weekā€™s Funny Papers Again column will not appear in this space. Instead, some other nonsense will appear here. The reason for this is because to present an articulate position in a concise manner on the subject chosen I had to do a little...

Window on the World Column | Best Nurse Ever

From a very young age, my baby girl had talked about going into nursing. When her auntie suggested that, maybe, vet school might be more up her alley, she responded that she could never work with animals; she loved them too much. It was shortly...

Worthy to Print Column | The Eternal Flame

If you have read any of my scribbling over time, you know Iā€™m a lifelong conservative. I donā€™t know exactly when I discovered this. Although I canā€™t remember much about politics until my platoon sergeant and I were sitting on the hood of a...

Worthy to Print Column | Thankful for the Legion

If anyone knows me, they know that I am a veteran of the U.S. Army. I am proud to tell anyone that asks. I also suffer from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). I am one of the lucky ones. I found someone who understands...

Funny Papers Again Column | If Fiction Were Real: A Study in Human Emotion

Below is what happens when a writer is somewhat confined to his immediate surroundings; that writer reads a lot of books and views a lot of documentaries and then sits down at the keyboard and just lets the fingers go where the imagination, and...

Funny Papers Again Column | Disunion, Union and Serenity

For the past few weeks I have been telling everyone I think cares to hear it that if they want to enjoy the Arroyo Seco River, they needed to do it posthaste, as that particular stream is going to die before the Fourth of...

Funny Papers Again Column | History at a Glance: Amendments and Compromises

ā€˜A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right to bear Arms, shall not be infringedā€™; Second Amendment, Constitution of the United States of America. These words, and the thoughts behind them, were added to the constitution and ratified in...
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