It was a recent Sunday morning in downtown Perryville. The Courthouse clock read 5:15. The glow of streetlights yellowed the darkness. The first of three daily’ fresh-air’ walks had just …
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8/18/23
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If we claim to be responsible citizens, family members, businesspeople, parents, Christians, in any way spiritual or just functional adult human beings, we owe it to ask ourselves a very simple …
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8/18/23
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Dear Editor: Are we complicit in the destruction of our democracy and the virtually inevitable devastation that will mean for the entire planet? I wish that were hyperbole, but it is not. As …
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8/11/23
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Working-class Americans just cannot catch a break in the Biden economy. Millions are struggling to get by as they face the one-two punch of higher prices and rising interest rates. And it’s all …
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By Jason Smith
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8/11/23
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When I was elected by my Republican colleagues to serve as Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, I promised the American people the committee would do something it hadn’t …
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By Jason Smith
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8/4/23
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For two years under one-party Democrat control of Congress and the White House, the American people were left completely in the dark about the numerous scandals and crises that have plagued President …
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By Jason Smith
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7/28/23
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On July 10, the Ways and Means Committee held a hearing at a cattle auction barn in Kimball, Minnesota, to hear directly from farmers and ranchers in the community about how America’s …
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By Jason Smith
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7/21/23
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Dear Editor, From the Saxon hills of Germany to the French countryside in France to the very wisely frugal Dutch these are the men and women (yes, men and women) who prospered our community and …
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7/21/23
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Dear Editor Are we ”woke” or simply willful or complicit mushrooms? As an increasingly elderly, predominantly independently voting (thru more than half a century of voting citizenship) …
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7/21/23
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Dear Editor, I made my home just as I always had this past week, listening to music, reflecting on work and making my way through the city streets. The small white truck in front of me seemed to be …
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7/21/23
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