- LETTER TO THE EDITORS OF NATIONAL WILDLIFE: BISON, RANCHERS, RIGHTEOUS BELLYACHIN’
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I personally know what is happening: ranchers who already were barely maintaining a foothold with their way of life are finally selling out because of tax increases. And the American Prairie Foundation (APF) and also the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) are the buyers, i.e., the predators swooping in to greedily grab what these ranchers are losing.
- A LIBRARY SHOULD NEVER DIE!
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The importance of libraries was something Andrew Carnegie understood way back in the early 20th century when he helped found over 3000 public libraries, including our own. Shouldn’t we make sure our Maryville library continues to exist?
- PSYCHIATRY HAS SPOKEN: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS MENTALLY ILL
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"You know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it ... they're standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible-looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.” (One wonders if it occurred to Trump, then or later, that since some of these girls were as young as 15 years, they weren’t exactly “women.”)
- I AM MY NEIGHBOR’S KEEPER (A HUMBLE HOMILY, IN THE FORM OF AN ESSAY, PRESENTED AS A BOOK)
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The equation is clear: He intended to harm that professor; he failed. He tried to kill me; he failed. I tried to defeat him; I succeeded. But barely.
