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April 29, 2026

Guest Column | Understanding Critical Access Hospitals and Their Impacts and Challenges

Mee Memorial Healthcare System Rena Salamacha
You may have read recently that out of the 1,353 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) across the United States, Mee Memorial Healthcare System was named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of 27 CAHs to know in 2024. But what exactly is a CAH, and...

Funny Papers Again Column | Phase Two: Indian Territory to the Gulf Coast

Steve Wilson
(In this issue we continue with the journal of amateur travel writer Charles Bogle. Editors.) Oklahoma has for over 150 years been home to Native American tribes who were forced to leave the lands they had inhabited for thousands of years, and as we rolled...

Funny Papers Again Column | A Hapless Man, a Hopeless Leader and a Hopeful Reunion

Steve Wilson
The headline reads simply ā€œFunny Papers June 18 2025.ā€ Below the headline there is a blank page where on the left margin, expecting to go to work, the cursor waits, and waits, and waits. A quick glance at the clock on the wall lets...

Guest Column | How Farmworkers Outlawed ā€˜El Cortito’ 50 Years Ago

For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as ā€œEl Cortito,ā€ was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept farmworkers stooped over for long hours each day. Workers were only able to stand and stretch when they reached the...

Window on the World Column | No Doubting the Universe

ā€œNo doubt the universe will unfold as it should,ā€ I tell my husband (sort of citing my favorite poem ā€œDesiderataā€). This was after we returned home from our neighbor’s place up the hill. Most times you go to neighboring homes and receive tomatoes or...

Funny Papers Again Column | State Route 198 Revisited: When Wine Came to King City

Steve Wilson
Readers will recall last week’s column left off with my first solo truck run to the other valley to gather grape rootings for transplant here on the Oasis Road development we now know as San Bernabe Vineyard. Before we head over the hills, though,...

Funny Papers Again Column | Solstice, Schmolstice … Give Me a Sunny Equinox Any Day

I loathe the 24 hours of Dec. 21-22, 2021. And it has nothing to do with this year. I hate Dec. 21 every year and have since before I knew the whole planetary explanation of why I detest the day. (Reason is because the...

Window on the World Column: Secret Sisters

ā€œā€˜Tis the season! Join my baking group, send Christmas cheer out to the world, be a part of a Secret Santa, Operation Christmas Child or Secret Sister group?ā€ Normally, I wouldn’t go there. I don’t have time to be figuring out how to do...

OPINION: Spring fling

Local column by George Worthy

Worthy to Print Column | Fly Your Flag Proudly

WOW! What a great couple of days.Ā Did you get enough to eat? I’ll admit that since gluttony is a sin, I’ll tell you that I didn’t eat that much, but I won’t be eating any big meals for a couple of days. What makes...
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