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Since I can remember, I have spent the Easter holiday with my family on the farm north of Canton. Initially, Grandma and Grandpa Vogts lived […]
Public education and educators are under attack. The McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education banned Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, “Maus.” According to NPR’s […]
Technically, the Beijing 2022 Olympics started already. Luge and curling, which is my favorite event, began competition on Wednesday, and alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, ice […]
The ball dropped. The clock struck midnight. The calendar rolled over to a new year. With 2021 in the rearview mirror, 2022 stretches out ahead, […]
One of my wife Kendall’s favorite Christmas movies is the 1989 “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” and it isn’t uncommon for people to call me Clark […]
Though children in masks going door-to-door begging for candy might be wrapped up for another year, real horrors occur every day. Whether it is a […]
Dr. Victor Frankenstien pieced together his creature from exhumed corpses of people and animals. With a jolt of electricity, Frankenstein’s monster came to life. In […]
There’s only one place where in one day you can watch a chicken get a bath, see calves being born, ride a train, race down […]
MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. — An old, beat-up piano sat in the garage of her Emporia home. It used to be a player piano, but the mechanism […]
I plug my nose before jumping into any pool. The same goes for lakes and other bodies of water. I can’t really swim. I probably […]
The First Amendment prevailed in yet another attempt of governmental overreach. On June 23, the Supreme Court found in favor of the free speech rights […]
School is officially out for summer and graduation season is behind us. As someone who works in education, this time of the year is always […]
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