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March 17, 2026

Guest Column | King City’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 City’s Comprehensive Plan to End Youth violence. The plan was implemented in 2017 and shootings decreased from 64 during the period of 2015...

Worthy to Print Column | Family — What’s Next?

George Worthy
Here we are, another week or month of information that we have compiled as we go through the days and nights of life. Today I would like to mention a new member of my family. No, it’s not me nor is it any of...

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Joanne's Got It: Column by Joanne Banuelos

Funny Papers Again Column | What Would JR Sing to Leaders Today?

Steve Wilson
Back in 1980, I spent a couple hours with an American icon, a man whose music struck chords across a wide swath of the nation and at times insinuated itself into the political discussion. He came from a small, rural part of Arkansas, born...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Digest of Abridged Subjects

Steve Wilson
The following were subjects for full columns, columns I now know will, to use an archaic adage, never see the light of day. The research of these subjects runs to dozens if not scores of hours and each would use up the 1,000-word limit;...

Worthy to Print Column: Count Your Blessings

How are you doing? Still staying in the house? It’s getting a little old, don’t 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...

Guest Column | The Healing Power of Food

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
When a person is in the hospital, their relationship with food takes on a new significance. It becomes a source of nourishment not just for the body but also for the spirit. A thoughtfully prepared meal can offer solace and provide a sense of...

Window on the World Column | The Super Fan

Lucy Jensen
It was football season 2011. I still have the ticket stub for no reason, back when they gave you paper tickets. It was going to be a game in San Francisco, indeed, the famous Candlestick Park. I had already attended an American baseball game...

Funny Papers Again Column | The Legacy of Writers

With the advent of 24-hour news coverage by numerous networks, we now have a multitude of current events coverage; coverage that invariably comes with opinion-fueled rhetoric offered up by everyone from professional pundits to amateur analysists and simpering sycophants to determined detractors. And with...

Guest Column | Protecting the Most Precious Gift We Hold in Life — Our Health

In 1948, the World Health Organization defined health as ā€œa state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.ā€ WHO published further clarifications in 1986, citing health as ā€œa resource for everyday life, not the objective...
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