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I’ve got a new compass

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“Help wanted: Experienced traveler who can serve as an expedition guide and outfitter. Requires creativity, passion, adaptability, and creativity.

Save your platitudes. Now is the time for action.

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This is going to take more than platitudes. How many Martin Luther King Jr. quotes did you share on your Facebook or Instagram stories this weekend? How many times did you nod to yourself when a B-list celebrity posted something about how we all need to “come together and love each other?”

What do I do now?

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What do I do now? Will there ever be a time we will no longer have to ask that question?

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:

You can’t turn agriculture off when it’s not needed

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Agriculture, when done right is a business and should be treated as such. We are in the business of producing food, fiber and timber for the U.S.A. and other worldwide consumers. They depend on us to produce a good product!

Prejudice and destruction are not the answer

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What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was awful and wrong. There’s no excuse for his terrible action, and I was relieved when he was charged with murder, as he should be. But I don’t want to let this one situation cause prejudices of either race, or of officers.

COPING WITH COVID: What the chaos has taught me

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Someday, I’ll be able to tell my grandkids, “I survived 2020.” I need a T-shirt for that—maybe even a plaque to hang on my wall.

Let us never forget

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As I write this, I’m looking out my front window watching and hearing the rain on Memorial Day.

A waste of agri-produce

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“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”