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Opinion

Clinton County on short end of PFBC’s stick

Letters to the editor

Jeff Deitrich Renovo When I was a kid, I remember taking my elderly uncle out fishing for stocked trout on Long Run near Salona. I remember my dad teaching me for the first time how to use a spinner for stocked trout on Baker Run. I remember as a 16-year-old fishing up through Paddy Run ...

Dear Annie: Mocktails today, martinis tomorrow?

Columns

Dear Annie: My granddaughter allows her son to order mocktails — drinks that sound like the adult version but don’t have liquor in them. Even though they are virgin drinks, I’m afraid this will lead him to drinking real alcohol at a young age. What do you think? — Concerned About the ...

Code Noir a reminder for states to clean up antiquated laws

Our View

In yesterday’s edition of The Express, we published a story about the French National Assembly’s unanimous decision to repeal the country’s long-dormant Code Noir, or Black Code. Enacted in 1685 under King Louis XIV, this decree was designed to regulate slavery across France’s ...

1984

Letters to the editor

Jim Newton Itasca Ronald Reagan vs. Walter Mondale was an election for the ages. In my nostalgic mind, I found both men capable, even likable during the 1984 presidential campaign. They didn’t instinctively hate each other over policy differences. Despite its book-title implications, ...

Antique games can command significant interest

Columns

Tennis, anyone? How about table tennis? The tabletop version of the sport is believed to have begun in Victorian England as a parlor game played by the upper class. Early equipment was improvised; instead of a net, players are said to have lined up a row of books across a table and hit a golf ...

A nation of suspects

Columns

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal ...