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Elliott Brack’s purple pen inspired journalists to excel

Bonus comes with the 'free-couch switcheroo'

Humor helps smooth bumps in life's road

Opinion: Coal is not ‘clean,’ nor is it ‘beautiful’

Surely, there’s a ‘pony’ in the pile of smelly rhetoric

Lessons to be learned from a gone-wrong prank

Happy 50th Birthday, Emily

Roscoe was prophetic about two 2026 political issues

People Die Twice is new book set for 2026

Their first Valentine’s Day celebration was 80 years ago

Be careful when arguing with a mule man

Scrubbing ‘colored’ toilet helped pop idyllic ‘bubble’

Column: Prayer of thanksgiving for two who taught beyond books

Column: When is a black eye worth it?

Opinion: So many colorful you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff stories

Opinion: Tony craved attention and really wanted to please

Opinion: How one public figure sleeps well in a ‘glass house’

Opinion: Blue-ribbon service brings customers back over and over

Opinion: Charles Barr’s story is about defying the odds

Opinion: Alex Howard proves ‘It’s a small world after all’

Opinion: Time for new chapter in 570 Prince Ave.’s history

Opinion: Hallelujah, an emu joins our barnyard menagerie

Opinion: Felix was more than an articulate ‘man of the cloth’

Opinion: Lots to observe and love in ‘country living’

Opinion: Big Dink stories help keep my father ‘alive’

Opinion: Georgia. what's on your mind?

Opinion: Men should get over latex-glove paranoia

Opinion: Hayes, you are a role model for your peers

Opinion: A prayer and ‘Superman’ win over the ‘Nerds’

Opinion: Cursive writing could become this century’s hieroglyphics

Where’s common sense in crippling the EPA?

Springtime makes me smile and sneeze

Litter in ditches says something about people

Neighbor’s ‘gifts’ bring new barnyard adventure

Have you ever been fired?

Musk’s rush to change America and the world

Don’t forget this key to long-lasting relationships

Three of President Donald Trump’s promises

A grandpa’s mission: Be a memory-maker

Jimmy Carter leaves 100-year legacy of making world better