Loose Ends at Year End

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 Marble Falls     The end of every year always finds me with contradictory feelings, and I don’t think that’s something that just happens to me.  On one hand, I’m ready for a new year.  There’s excitement over new projects, a clean slate, a quick restart after the slow walk of the last year’s passing.  On the other hand, there are …

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Politicizing Unemployment

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  Marble Falls     I stumbled on a surprising item in the Washington Post.  A handful of states have carved out exceptions for workers voluntarily leaving their jobs because they are refusing employer compliance with the vaccine mandate.  These deep red states want these anti-vax protestors to get unemployment.  I could hardly believe my eyes, but seeing is believing as they wrote that … …

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Pollution Kills, Just Slowly

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      Marble Falls      As the calendar turns to mark the end of the second year of the pandemic, we went old school, and headed for the hills.  To be more exact, we went back to Arkansas, and, more specifically, the Ozarks.   Mountains, perhaps I should say more accurately, but having been born in Wyoming and raised in Colorado and …

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