Opinion

Growing Up Flippin

This week’s memory actually starts slightly before the 1960s and in Springfield, Missouri rather than Flippin. As I’ve mentioned previously, I was born during the years my family lived in Springfield and we moved back to Flippin when I was five years old.
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A Man Who Made Predictions

A real-life naturalist is a man who has lived his life in the woods knows and sees and feels things that he knows the modern world will not understand Men who call themselves ‘Master Naturalists’ in this day and time are to be laughed at. There are lots of those. But real naturalists from an early time, like Muir and Miner and Burroughs, seem to be those who will never be again. They were taken seriously once, but not now. The ones I knew are either very old or dead. Henry David Thoreau once wrote “In wildness was the saving of mankind.” He was right!
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ABORTION

Life begins at the point of conception. No one can deny that after a human being is conceived it will develop into the very same being as those debating this issue.
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Walmart Lessons

I bought a Keurig coffee maker at the Walmart store in Houston, Mo in December and it quit working a little more than a month later. Got to where it wouldn’t make more than 2 ounces at a time. I took it back to the store in Houston, where I grew up, to ask if they would replace it. I was told I couldn’t get it replaced unless I had a receipt and the box it came in. Thank you and goodbye!
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Winter and Wildlife

During very cold and vicious winter weather, wild creatures need much more food than they need during the mild stretches that we love to see. The acorns that were as thick as I have seen them in a long time, become scarce in February and March, so we are coming upon the lean time of the year, the bottleneck that wildlife species must pass through before the arrival of spring, when there is replenishment and abundance once again.
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Capitol Discussion

A new year gives us an opportunity for a fresh start and to make positive changes to the way we live. No matter what our resolutions are, we can agree on hoping 2023 will be better than the past.
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State Capitol Week in Review

LITTLE ROCK –School choice, prison expansion and tax cuts are expected to be the highlights of the 2023 regular legislative session that convenes on Monday, January 9. Also on the agenda will be legislation to improve the reading skills of elementary school students.
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First District

This week, Members-elect for the 118th Congress gathered to elect a speaker, be sworn in, and start legislative business. While nominating Kevin Mc-Carthy on Wednesday, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, “We have a border that is no longer a border, we have a military that can’t meet its recruitment goals, we have bad energy policy, bad education policy, record spending, record inflation, record debt and a government that has been weaponized against we the people.” After 15 separate votes, the House of Representatives elected Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be Speaker of the House and Members were sworn in at 1:40 a.m.
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