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Water -- liquid, frozen or lacking -- leads top local stories of 2007
(Local News ~ 12/29/07)
McCook celebrated its 125th birthday in 2008 with a number of events and water continued to take center stage, in the form of spring flooding, the Legislature's water bill LB701 and new property taxes on home and land owners to pay for water sent to Kansas...
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Health insurance should be key issue in election
(Editorial ~ 12/29/07)
We're all concerned about the war in Iraq, especially if we have loved ones serving there, or even if we're taxpayers. But more than half of us are more concerned about issues such as the economy, our mortgage, credit cards and health care, according to the latest AP-Yahoo News survey of more than 1,800 Americans...
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The trash lady's grandson
(Column ~ 12/29/07)
She was only the trash lady! I would see her making her rounds on the rare occasions that we were in town. Her route included the alley between Norris, then called "Main Street" and West First most often between Hesteds 5 & 10 and the bank. I was intrigued because she drove a farm truck with stock rack and lifted the trash barrels up by hand. ...
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Do actions speak louder than words?
(Column ~ 12/29/07)
We often speak in terms of the "breadth and depth" of things. When we do that, we're in essence wondering or asking whether our behaviors match our words and/or our declarations. For example, one of the subjects I teach in my Introductory to Sociology class is a chapter on religion and one of the things we discuss is the breadth and depth of religious belief...
Stories from Saturday, December 29, 2007
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