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Trump Report: The Monks said what?
I have to admit, when I heard that the Monks have spoken, the oxymoron of that sentence had my attention. Now I'm not familiar with Monks or what they believe...much like I'm not that familiar with IPR, NPR and PBS...and according to one reader that makes me not willing to learn. However, let me say, there are things that I really don't care to learn about and well, Monks might be one of them. Cracker Barrel is for Triple Trumpers
As a news gal, I try to keep my ear to the ground on everything happening around us. Not only locally, but at the state and federal level and the insanity on the "interweb" in the culture around us. On a podcast called, "I've Had It," episode, "Take your a*s to Cracker Barrel" which aired on August 7, 2025 you can see two rabid women. Jennifer Welch, and Angie Sullivan, both former reality "stars" on "Sweet Home: Oklahoma," launch into a tirade that I don't think I've ever seen before.
Letter to the Editor: PBS and NPR
To The Editor,It is not surprising that the Editor does not know what is on PBS and NPR. You would have to be willing to want to learn something to turn on the channel.The beginning of public television started with government support to provide quality programming without the intrusion of advertising dollars interfering with the content. The agreement was that PBS would be prohibited in selling commercial advertising and to provide programming to remote areas that were not receiving commercial stations.
Wait, wait..Don't tell me...
It's another week and another cut in funding for, something that should be self reliant. The Corporation of Public Broadcasting announced that it would be shutting down after their allowance got cut off. $1.1 billion was cut from their budget and I'm thinking, "HOLY COW! They got a BILLION dollars a year? That's insane!" My question is this. If they are a broadccasting network, why haven't they been working on selling advertising? For more than 50 years, we've been paying for the "free" service.
Letter to the Editor: She's Baaaack!
To The Editor,Gaslighting according to WebMD “happens when one person convinces their target that they're remembering things wrong or misinterpreting events. The gaslighter tries to manipulate the other person and presents their own thoughts and feelings as the truth.”There have been examples of gaslighting recently in Valerie’s column entitled “Money, Money, Money” and a response from GB, (Gerald) who always seems to have something to say.
Money, money, money
The last four years, pre-Trump, were awful. I mean awful in every way that you can think. I will say that they were the worst on the bank account. But then I think morally it may have been worse. I don't remember ever seeing people topless on the White House lawn before the Biden administration.For the most part, I can skate by on a razor-thin margin and with not much in the bank account. Before there was American Eagle, there was Lee
It seems that my eyeballs are on the permanent eye roll setting. The latest was the attempt to make the American Eagle brand into some sort of branch of the Nazis. I'll be honest, when anyone now labels anyone a "Nazi," I yawn. Unfortunately, the connotation of what a real Nazi is has been diluted with the schoolyard name-calling that has been going on. Letter to the Editor: Salute to our City Workers
Dear Editor,Recently I've had the opportunity to get involved with some of our city departments. --A few weeks ago I had a question about mosquito spraying and when I called Chris at city hall he not only gave me the phone number of the person I needed to talk to but he called me back the next day to follow up. --The guys in the street department have made it possible to sit on our deck now that they are spraying for mosquitos twice a week.
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Hot Takes: Democrats Campaign, Diddy Did it, Photoshop, BACON, Investigations
In weeding through the news every week, there are tidbits that I scan and have nowhere to put the crazy bits of information. Usually, there are some (what I think) funny or sarcastic responses that roll around in my head. When that happens, I feel like Chandler in the episode of Friends, where he makes a bet that he won't make one sarcastic response for a day. Letter to the Editor: Thank you to the Fair Board
Dear Editor, Kudos to the Benton County Fair Board on a successful 2025 fair. Being on a volunteer fair board can not be an easy job. Everyone has opinions on what needs to be be done, without knowing all the facts. It appears the board listened to public input and acted on it. The midway was at least twice the size of last year's with many new rides.
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