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Local Commentaries

Bridging The Migrant Information Gap

As someone who has traveled parts of the Pan American Highway — a road that starts in Alaska and ends at the tip of Argentina — and who has spent a lot of time in South America, I’ve been keenly interested in the immigrant crisis at the United States border. I am familiar with the Darien ...

Show Your Love

I got to thinking about Valentine’s Day when my son’s bedroom stove overheated. When they got home from work their bedroom was more than 90 degrees. When he told me about it my mind went back to a Valentine’s Day many years ago. My first husband was never big on Valentine’s Day. ...

Where Is The Bottom?

With another economic blow to our community, the closing of Jamestown Business College, a part of Jamestown since 1886, one may rightly ask “Where is the Bottom?” It is now 6 years since our community lost its passenger air service. We have dropped off the nation’s air map, while in ...

The Delinquent Property Tax Report

I suppose that I could be accused of having “too much time on my hands” to write about this…but let me try anyway. Recently, as happens every year under the requirements of state law, a list of delinquent property taxpayers was published in the newspaper. It was eight full pages of ...

Things Have Flipped From The Former Days

How dare the Super Bowl have stadium walls to keep those who haven’t paid for a ticket from entering! What are the chances of an illegal alien being at the game? Better than yours? Look at what you’re watching with shelters, hotels, schools, rec centers, airports, and hospitals stuffed ...

Set Border Threshold At Zero

Some things are so absurd that you can only shake your head. Some other things are so very absurd that you can only laugh. So it was on Feb. 6—Ronald Wilson Reagan’s birthday, no less—when Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. said the southern border of the continental United States is not ...