Opinion

By: Tuffy Fields I am writing this from Cancun, Mexico. After so many trips down here chasing the Mayans across Yucatan I had a new experience. I spent the day in a hospital. After becoming so ill I fell, hit my head and got my first ride in an ambulance. Everyone involved were amazing. The young doctor who saw me …

By: Tuffy Fields Life is full of adventure and it is up to the individual that is navigating his or her life’s journey to take advantage of what life throws at it. Personally, I enjoy change and that is why I embrace project management. One day during the oil market oil market glut in the mid 1980s I was rebuilding …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis I’ve already started wearing my Halloween T-shirts. I don’t want to get left behind and end up on Oct. 31 with three neatly folded T’s still sitting in my closet, as I do most every year.  Yep. Last Thursday – Oct. 1 – I wore my black shirt with orange lettering that says, “You can’t scare …

By: Tuffy Fields Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed substances in the world, yet its effects on the human body are far-reaching and often underestimated. While moderate social drinking is common, research increasingly shows that alcohol affects nearly every organ system — and that there is no completely “safe” level of consumption. Understanding what alcohol does to the …

By: Jim Brown The next election for president is two years away, but there are candidates in both parties who are positioning themselves for a possible run. A new candidate on the list, and a guy from Louisiana, is current U.S. Senator John Kennedy , who is 74. When asked about his interest in the nation’s top office, Kennedy did …

By: Glynn Harris I don’t know about you but I’ve about had a belly full of this incessantly hot and dry weather.  I checked my weather notes and noticed that we have had been about 20 straight days of no rain and temperatures near or above 100 degrees.  We have had some predictions that I have come to doubt, that …

By: Jim Brown America is a blessed nation. When we look at Devine intervention that changed the course of some historical event in the history of our relatively young country to a point that America was victorious and went on to spread the word of freedom and liberty. We have to realize that a greater power has looked over us. …

By: Sallie Rose Hollis Physical therapy, I’ve decided, can teach us a few things about life.  I’ve been going because of pain around my sacroiliac joint, and somewhere among the leg lifts, repetitions and instructions about how to move, I began to learn more than how to get better physically. As I’ve gone through exercises at therapy and dutifully – …

By: Tuffy Fields The United States has been under attack from the People’s Republic of Iran for 47 years. Though the average American citizen did not realize it, a silent hidden war has been ongoing for decades. Iran partnered with the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, Iraqi Shia militias, and Syrian militias, These groups have two things in common; the …

By: Jim Brown A good part of the nation was mesmerized recently over the six-week long Lindsey Clancy murder trial. You will recall that Clancy faced charges for the 2023 deaths of her three children. Her defense argued she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis. The prosecution argued she acted with criminal intent.  The jury had reached an 11–1 consensus, but …