My competitive nature was nurtured through years of playing team sports, mainly soccer, in my youth. Newspaper staffs are also a team in many ways, and while the team awards are the best, individual recognitions are icing on the cake.
Residents and officials in Pierce City have found themselves intensely at odds or reverently supporting one another since the Municipal Election, political posturing that should eventually bare the true soul of the city.
“I’m going to make your daughter’s heart stop.” No parent is ever prepared to hear those words, but on Monday, that’s what Dr. Jacob Miller told my wife and me 24 hours before our daughter’s ventricular septal defect surgery.
Dear Editor: Americans are struggling to afford the highest drug prices in the world. Now, at the behest of Big Pharma front groups, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the DRUGS Act, a bill that would rob millions of Americans like me of critical daily medicines.
Summer is coming, and gas prices have been hotter than the weather. The national average per gallon at the pump is the highest it has ever been at $4.56, which thankfully is 57 cents higher than the gas station nearest me as I write this.