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Tim is out of the office, and he left us with three of his favorite Friday Catchall entries from years ago:

By Tim Wiederaenders March 30, 2023
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When I swallow, knives cut my throat.

By John Stossel March 30, 2023
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Traffic, road conditions, street maintenance and construction are generally areas of great interest for our citizens.

By Phil Goode, Special to the Courier March 29, 2023
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Everyone in the national media this week was worrying about whether Donald Trump was going to be arrested in New York.

By Michael Reagan March 29, 2023
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It’s true that I love sports, as I’m sure many of you may know. And with Opening Day of the MLB season coming up on Thursday, March 30, you’d think I’d be super stoked, right?

By Aaron Valdez March 28, 2023
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IQs have dropped for the first time in American history, and the experts aren’t quite sure why.

By Tom Purcell March 28, 2023
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The gauntlet had been thrown down. It was a Wells Lamont work glove and it lay half on the living room rug and half on the laminate flooring. ...

By Wil Williams March 28, 2023
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I am a registered nurse in the state of Arizona and practiced for 35 years in Prescott both at the VA Medical Center and the Yavapai Guidance Clinic....

By LINDA LUTES, Special to the Courier March 27, 2023
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As we await word of a seemingly imminent Trump indictment, it has been highly entertaining to hear his defenders twist themselves into pretzels in order to excuse the fact he paid a porn star $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 election to hide an extramarital tryst.

By Dick Polman March 26, 2023
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This is the fourth column about various ways we fuel our modern society’s needs. This series covers the five major energy sources, including “pros and cons” for each, to better prepare you for friendly discussions.

By KELLY W. KADING, Courier Columnist March 25, 2023
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I got an unexpected phone call on the way home from work today. It was the dermatologist’s office and I figured they’d say “all good, see you next year.”

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Regardless of how bitter the immigration argument — and the debate routinely sinks to new hostility lows – everyone should agree that open borders must not be allowed to disrupt public education.

By Joe Guzzardi Syndicated Columnist March 24, 2023
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The question of whether we will continue to pay sales taxes on groceries is now in the hands of the governor.

By Tim Wiederaenders March 23, 2023
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On Thursday, March 23, in this space, Jeff Pace offered a litany of imagined horrors, teeing off on the word “woke” as a code word for the deliberate, wanton destruction of our social norms and authoritarian control of our minds.

By STEVEN AYRES, Special to the Courier March 23, 2023
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All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion.

By John Stossel March 23, 2023
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It’s interesting to see the reaction to the term “woke” in The Daily Courier Rants & Raves from people who suddenly want to define the term down to its narrowest, most benign use.

By JEFF PACE, Special to the Courier March 22, 2023
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It’s quandary time again. Back in late 2015, I entered the field of candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

By Wil Williams March 22, 2023
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When my three semi-grown daughters were young (and since I work in the lucrative world of public education), we’d spend our spring break holidays riding bikes to the park, making dad-sized pillow forts in the living room and raiding the gift shop at the zoo.

By JASE GRAVES, Syndicated Columnist March 21, 2023
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Leading up to World War II, Russell Eugene Christiansen was a life insurance salesman in St. Louis, Missouri. As a civilian, he had no way ...

By Wil Williams March 21, 2023
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In just over a month, I’ll be embarking on one of Arizona’s most fabled and sought-after hikes/backpacking trips. I just hope I’m prepared for it!

By Aaron Valdez March 20, 2023
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Nobody these days is happier with Ron DeSantis than Vladimir Putin, who now has two horses in the 2024 Republican race: Trump (naturally) and a coward who talks tough to Disney but quakes at the prospect of confronting a genocidal thug.

By Dick Polman March 19, 2023
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This is the third column about various ways we fuel our modern society’s needs. This series covers the five major energy sources, including “pro” and “con” arguments for each, to better prepare you for friendly discussions.

By KELLY W. KADING, Courier Columnist March 18, 2023
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Cooperating with other people who share the same goals as you do shouldn’t be so tough, right?

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If you ever needed a reminder that we can’t turn a blind eye to hate, new data from the Anti-Defamation League should more than do the trick.

March 17, 2023
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Your flight is delayed? Blame your government.

By John Stossel March 16, 2023

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