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We should make Halloween great again

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Now that we are elbow-deep in the pumpkin guts of October, I’m starting to feel the holiday season kick-off excitement. It has captured my imagination ever since I was a young lad overdosing on Brach’s Mellowcreme Pumpkins and memorizing the Sears Holiday Wish Book when I should’ve been diagramming sentences or deciphering the dark sorcery of fractions.

News media is dying by its own hand

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The news media is about as popular as a first-century tax collector. This probably isn’t breaking news if you are a consumer of journalism, or what passes for journalism.

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Blast off: Who's the real astronaut?

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I have a confession: I am not a Trekkie.

Getting away from Joe’s angry America for a while

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It’s not until you leave the United States that you realize how angry Americans are. Earlier this month my wife the travel agent and I took a cruise in the Mediterranean from Athens to Barcelona by way of stops on the Greek island of Santorini and in Sicily.

Crossing paths with Kris and Miranda means a lot

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In this business, you cross paths with quite a few folks from quite a few walks of life.

Looking ahead following dismal jobs report

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For the second consecutive month, Wall Street analysts and media business forecasters badly missed the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s job creation total.

Striving to be the best at what we do

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I played in my second chess tournament this past weekend here in Ruston, and for the second time I was impressed and still a little surprised at how official and serious everything was.

Two to serve as salvation of democracy

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The last eight months have been anything but dull when it comes to competition. The only difference is that we are not viewing a football team that we analyze and cheer for an all or nothing victory and then lick our wounds if we lose or surround ourselves in self-satisfaction if we win.