Jan 21, 2014
Woman on the Edge: Dirty little secret
I’ve been accused of being boring in my column.
Mister, you don’t know the half of it. Boring is good, my man. I’ve worked really hard to get to the point of a boring life. You want to hear someth…
Jan 21, 2014
Guest Editorial – Mothers Day, Armed Force Day, Memorial Day, and Operation American Spring – The Co
Several major important events occur in May 2014. Mothers Day May 11, 2014, Armed Forces Day weekend May 16, 2014, Memorial Day May 26, 2014, and Operation American Spring beginning May 16, 2014 and…
Jan 21, 2014
Cowboy Cooking: Santa Rosa’s link to the past
You slap a mosquito and it startles your horse. You give her a pat; she settles down. You look around for your dog and spot him herding a couple of stray cattle back to the herd. A half dozen more ca…
Jan 21, 2014
Walter Williams – Politics and Minimum Wage
There's little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the mi…
Jan 21, 2014
Letter to editor: Christians beware!
Dear Editor,
“Mandela believed in God, was not a Christian” per his confidante. Surprisingly, admirably Mandela forgave his jailer. So did Corrie Ten Boom, a Christian whose sister died in prison.…
Jan 21, 2014
Letter to editor: Stifling speech
Dear Editor:
All this talk about being nice and not being negative is nice. What it is really about is stifling speech. The new batch of left wing newspaper reporters is even farther left t…
Jan 21, 2014
Old Man Winter strikes again
The wind blows cold and we’ve seen the realities of bitter temperatures and frozen pipes in Santa Rosa County. While the county usually experiences what we consider a cold winter, this extreme within…
Jan 20, 2014
Kindness in the hen house
I have a small farm. I have two goats, about 25 chickens, (including a blind rooster named Foghorn), a dog and three cats.
My chickens are a motley crew. I have several different types and they…
Jan 20, 2014
Red Cross offers update on Haiti following 2010 earthquake
January 12, 2010 was a day unlike Haiti had ever seen. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, generous donors responded immediately to provide lifesaving emergency relief to mi…
Jan 17, 2014
Woman on the Edge: Decisions
All of us have to make decisions in life. These decisions fall on many different levels of difficulty – everything from what to eat and what to wear to where to live and what to do with our lives.
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