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700-plus years and counting? What would Hillary think?

The one-term, twice-impeached, four-time-indicted, ex-president Donald John Trump is now facing a combined 712½ years in prison sentences.He’ll plead not guilty to all 91 criminal charges against him.Was there any doubt he’d do that?He may not appear to be humbled by it all on the outside. ...

Use it, build it, and, yes, they’ll come

“Fenway Park,” John Updike begins his famous 1960 piece on Ted Williams, “is a lyric little band box of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curious sharp focus....”Goodness, thatĢƵ not what the ball yard in Rowes Run resembles. Like Fenway Park in Boston, Rowes Run ...

Newspaper raid should chill all Americans

Marion County, Kansas, is located in the middle of the state, almost three hours west of Kansas City, Kan., and is really not the kind of place anyone would really expect to ever hear anything about.It has a population of about 11,000 people, and its weekly newspaper, the ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> For anyone whose concerns about climate change have been heightened by this summerĢƵ wildfires, storms and record-setting temperatures, The <em>New York Times</em> had a headline that allowed for a rare bit of ...

OP-ED: Fayette County not willing to take risks on injection wells

The Fayette County Board of Commissioners were pleased to learn that a wastewater injection well site is no longer proposed for Nicholson Township.We remained united in our opposition to the proposed injection well from the moment concerned residents and the supervisors of Nicholson Township ...