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Column by Dick Yarbrough: State charter school commission in good hands
I have said it before, but let me repeat: I have no problem with charter schools. I did have a big problem with the ham-handed way last November’s charter school referendum was rammed through by pr...
Jun 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Joe Phillips: No Foul!
When I mentioned that boys and men carried pocketknives, I didn't have a clue what nerves that would touch. It completely slipped my mind, I “disremembered,” how boys owned harmless toy knives that...
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Column by Dwight Watt: What is a UPS?
A UPS is a Universal Power Supply. It is an extension cord that has a battery built in it. It is actually a box that plugs into your electrical outlet and has several outlets for you to plug device...
Jun 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Pam Rasmussen: Marching band in a wheelchair?
When you think about a marching band you don’t typically think of a person in a wheelchair. But why shouldn’t that person in a wheelchair have a chance to be in the band? It may seem impossible but...
Jun 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 56 56 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Kaye Ella Steadman: Lost and found
There is a lesser known, less talked about dilemma going on here in the tri-state area. I am referring to the minority of people that are actually trying to gain weight. We are definitely being dis...
Jun 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Norman Edwards:Prevent fish kills in your pond this summer
During the summer months, we get a lot calls about fish kills in local ponds. The most common cause of fish kills in ponds is oxygen depletion. One of two different situations usually creates the o...
Jun 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Justin Glaze:Sun protection options
With school out, one of the first things we all look forward to is summer vacation! Perhaps you are going on a cruise, to the beach or camping. Unless your family’s hobby involves caving, you will ...
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Joe Phillips: Almost there
This time of year I become sentimental over summer camp. My father, as a minister, believed in organized summer activities for kids. If kids think they have “nothing to do” now, you should have hea...
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column by Dick Yarbrough: No one can question answer man’s wisdom
by Dick Yarbrough
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
Well, boys and girls, I see by the old clock on the wall that it is June already. We know what that means. It is time for Answer Man to dig into the Question Box and see what is on your hearts and ...
Column by Joanna Jackson: Eight tips to guide for your home search
by Joanna Jackson
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 53 53 recommendations | email to a friend
1. Research before you look. Decide what features you most want to have in a home, what neighborhoods you prefer, and how much you’d be willing to spend each month for housing. 2. Be realistic. It’...
Column by Dwight Watt: What is hexadecimal?
by Dwight Watt
Jun 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
Hexadecimal is a number system we use to represent the data in a computer in a technical way. There are lots of number systems in the world. Humans use the decimal number system and computers use t...
Column by Norman Edwards:Keeping deer out of your garden
by Norman Edwards
Jun 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
Each summer, we get numerous calls and visits at the extension office from local residents who have something besides themselves eating out of their home vegetable garden. Sometimes it is an insect...
Column by Justin Glaze: Options for positive BRCA screening
by Justin Glaze
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
Last week we looked at the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic test. These medical tests check for the presence of a genetic marker which indicates a higher than normal risk of developing breast or ovarian ca...
Column by Elizabeth Farrell: Grandpa sure could sing
by Elizabeth Farrell
May 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
“I still remember what I sang.” Grandpa never forgot the song that gained him entry, at age 10, into boys choir at school. The year was 1887. The location was Kirovograd, then a city of 60,000 in c...
Column by Roger Sherrill: Machine guns
by Roger Sherrill
May 30, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
I had this discussion with a fellow and it went like this: “Roger, I don’t believe people should own guns that shoot 50 rounds. They don’t need them, of what use would they be to them?” I have over...
Column by Joe Phillips: Lieutenant Dale and Aunt Cat
by Joe Phillips
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
I didn't know him. And, I didn't question how I was related to “Aunt Cat.” She visited my family and I recall her reading to me on the green porch swing hung from the ceiling of the wide, screened...

THE UNITED States and the European Union continue moving toward a free-trade pact known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Last week, E.U. trade ministers agreed on a common opening position for negotiations, enabling President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron to say, on the sidelines of the Group of Eight Summit on Monday, that talks would begin next month in Washington. Touting the deal, Mr. Cameron said it could add $415 billion per year to the global economy, divided roughly evenly among the United States, Europe and everyone else. Mr. Obama pledged the deal is “going to be a priority of mine and my administration.”

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2013-06-18 19:30:24 -0400

PAST ATTEMPTS by the Obama administration to start peace talks with the Afghan Taliban foundered in part because the process was not, as U.S. officials frequently claimed, “Afghan-owned and Afghan-led.” In fact, the Taliban refused to negotiate with the government of Hamid Karzai, insisting its only purpose was to arrange the complete withdrawal from the country of all U.S. and allied forces. Mr. Karzai himself strenuously objected to a plan to open a Taliban office in Qatar in late 2011, claiming he had been excluded from talks about it, and the initiative soon collapsed.

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2013-06-18 19:29:57 -0400

MUCH OF the excellence in American medicine dates to a groundbreaking 1910 study that stimulated medical schools to reshape how doctors were trained. Teacher preparation today needs a similar push; the weakness of education schools is one of the reasons that many schools are struggling and why America lost its preeminent spot in the world for education.

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