Editorial

Biden plan includes devastating tax increases on family farms

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The combined tax rate could add up to a fatal 61 percent on inherited wealth, eliminating family farms (and many other small businesses) and consolidating all American agriculture into a handful of very large corporate farming enterprises that are easier for government to control. (As we know, Socialism forbids the age-old right of private property, which is what confiscatory taxation seeks to attain. No better reference may be made than to Karl Marx himself who said in The Communist Manifesto that, “the theory of the communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” (Heritage Foundation)).

Let them eat Kix

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I never parted with a $20 bill faster.

Call 811 before you dig

Whether you are planning to do it yourself or hire a professional, smart digging means calling 811 before each job.

Indulge in a little self-improvement

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The dictionary defines self-improvement as the improvement of one’s knowledge, status or charter by one’s own actions.

In the 1980’s, organizations started promoting self-improvement through seminars, self-help books and educational pamphlets. By 1988, the observance transformed into a nationwide event every year during the month of September.

To some the word can seem pretty selfexplanatory, but we all have different ways of improving ourselves based on our own personal goals, achievements and lifestyles.

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Broadband project connecting rural homes to internet

As of January 2021, 59 percent of the global population were active internet users.

We all use the internet everyday to pay bills, keep in touch with loved ones and more. But what if you were unable to access the world wide web because of where you lived?

Is President Biden politicizing COVID?

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Two leading House Republicans, Reps. Steve Scalise and James Comer, are asking the Food and Drug Administration for documents that might relate to GOP suspicions that President Joe Biden has politicized the process of administering vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Help local group to feed our community

Lake Arthur Meal Ministry (LAMM) has been serving home-cooked meals to not only the town’s elderly, but also home-bound and disabled residents who do not have access to substantial and nutritious meals on a regular basis.

TODAY IN HISTORY

1916 - WWI flying ace The Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France

Are you bathing too frequently?

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When I worked at my late uncle’s junkyard during junior high school, one of the regular customers (a crusty coot who resembled a cantankerous Roy Rogers sidekick wannabe) assured us that he luxuriated in a steaming bathtub each and every night.