My recent trip to Florida was glorious for one simple reason: it was normal. You see, I had been hungering for a friendly social gathering for months — any gathering involving family, friends, business colleagues or old classmates would do.
When the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie, Ill., many of the residents were horrified. A large percentage were Jewish, and some had been interned in concentration camps. The memory of those camps was still vivid, since this was 1978, a mere three decades after World War II had ended.
It was a Wednesday, April 25, 2018, when I received a call at work from my older brother. I could tell immediately in his voice that he was upset and advised me to get to my dad’s house fast.
In the Spring of 1850, Daniel Dennett, editor of The Planters’ Banner in Franklin took the steamboat Rio Grande to New Orleans and afterwards paid it a complement in his newspaper. “The Rio Grande is well regulated, well managed, and those who go on her are well fed,” he wrote.
Legislators have their hands full each session with the plethora of bills that come their way, facing the fundamental question: Who benefits if this bill passes? This is a question I hope legislators are asking when it comes to Senate Bill 101, which we urge them to vote no on. This bill, if passed and enacted, allows self-storage operators who plan to sell Louisiana residents’ belongings to notify the public by publishing notices in the newspaper OR an auction website.
As graduation looms, my son Gideon has been named both salutatorian and Wittiest Boy of the Cornersville (TN) High School Class of 2021. (I myself did well academically “back in the day” — which even then was about 15 years after the hoary phrase “back in the day” had applied for Medicare.
I knew it. I get the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and three days later, “J&J vaccine paused due to blood clots.” I have to admit I felt a little uneasy when I trudged into the local public library in an Orwellian procession of citizens on their way to inoculation.
At a time when police are being attacked on all sides for brutality, racism, recklessness and all sorts of social sins and criminal acts, I hesitate to write this column. I hesitate, not because I think that what I am about to say is wrong, but because words have been used as weapons and in the wrong hands, they misfire and they wound.
Butterflies and other helpful insects, such as bees, pollinate flowers and can keep dangerous pests at bay in the garden. Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the planet.
State representative District 41 Rep. Phillip DeVillier (R), P.O.