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Today I read that a little boy named Gabriel Taye of Cincinnati, Ohio hanged himself with his necktie. It angers me and saddens me at the same time to think that an eight year old child has to see suicide as his only way out. Is this what the world has become? If this is the direction we're moving in, what will the future be like?
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Every week, I read in our local newspaper, the Winters Express, about how unhappy some people are with the restoration work on Putah Creek. It’s always the same group of people that do everything they can to prevent the completion of the Putah Creek Restoration...
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Of course I'm talking about Wells Fargo Bank and the 5,300 employees that got fired for committing fraud upon the unsuspecting public. Well, it's business as usual for Wells Fargo, and no one was arrested and no one went to jail. They were fined $185 million but they profited up to $5.6 billion in just the second quarter of this year.
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I have a keen appreciation for women who live with disabled veterans who are suffering within themselves. I’m talking about veterans who want to live in the present but just can’t seem to get out of their past. Veterans who suffer within themselves find it...
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I’m a “newspaper guy.” I didn’t say I was a good “newspaper guy,” just a “newspaper guy.” There is a guy like me in every newspaper office in the world. I think you know why this is true but I’ll go ahead and explain anyway....
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Yesterday I went over to my friend, Terry Vender’s, house because I had an inkling that something was not right here in our little town of Winters, California. After I read the local newspaper, I got this uneasy feeling from my head to my knees...
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I think my wife is going crazy. Have you ever seen a chicken with its head cut off, I mean clear off? Well that’s exactly how she is acting! She’s running here and there and then back again, mumbling as she goes. I suppose all...
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The human brain is a strange yet beautiful thing. Some think it is the source of all that we say, feel, think, and do. For them, the brain is the origin of all. If we think about this idea for a few moments, it becomes...
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For years now, I have wanted to put into words how much I love my wife Therese. Over and over, time after time, I have tried to pen the words that might let her know exactly how I feel. I have found that it is...
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